On April 30, 2026, the Justice Department's Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, created by Trump's February 6, 2025 executive order “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias” (Executive Order 14202) and chaired by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, released its report, “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government.” The Justice Department described it as a 200-page report collecting the findings of 17 federal agencies. LGBTQ Nation reported that it focuses almost entirely on alleged anti-Christian policies, with some allegedly antisemitic ones, and none affecting other faith communities.
The report's central claim: “The Biden Administration's policies regularly clashed with a Christian worldview and burdened traditional religious practices. These conflicts frequently arose over abortion, gender ideology, and sexual orientation.” It criticizes Biden-era policies built on the 2020 Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which held that anti-LGBTQ discrimination is a form of sex discrimination barred by federal law, along with a 2024 HHS foster-care rule and Biden's 2022 executive order against conversion therapy. The report says Christian foster families “sometimes lost their licenses.” LGBTQ Nation noted that the 2024 rule applied only to providers seeking a designated placement status for LGBTQ children, did not penalize providers that did not seek it, and included language about caregivers' religious freedom.
The report's final chapter, “Current Efforts and Future Steps,” mostly catalogs actions the administration has already taken, which it presents as remedies. They include Pentagon worship services under Secretary Pete Hegseth that “featured sermons, singing hymns, and reading scripture”; a Department of Homeland Security social media campaign whose posts “have featured scriptural passages”; an HHS portal, launched April 14, 2025, for tips related to “chemical and surgical mutilation of children”; a 2025 IRS consent decree allowing houses of worship to address electoral politics with their congregations; and HUD work to “bolster protections for faith-based housing providers under the Fair Housing Act.” LGBTQ Nation described the chapter as pledging to let faith-based housing providers discriminate against LGBTQ people and to force schools to out trans students to their parents. First Liberty Institute's Jeremy Dys told NPR that many of the report's recommendations have already been implemented.
Critics were direct. Americans United for Separation of Church and State said, “The Executive Summary alone confirms what we have been saying all along: The administration's claims that it has uncovered extensive evidence of anti-Christian bias within the federal government are unfounded. ... The task force is doing exactly what we expected: imposing its narrow view of Christianity on the country and attacking freedom and equality, especially for women and LGBTQ+ Americans.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation called the report a “political document masquerading as a civil rights analysis,” and FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor said, “The bogus findings of the 'Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias' were always a foregone conclusion since the purpose of the task force was to presume and look for bias against only one class, conservative Christians, and seek to expand protections only for them.” Jim Simpson of Georgetown University's Center on Faith and Justice told the AP the report is “advocacy dressed up as investigation.”
Correction (October 2, 2026): This entry previously called the report 197 pages; the Justice Department describes it as a 200-page report (the published PDF runs 565 pages with appendices). It also presented a list of “next steps” as pledges; the report's own chapter, “Current Efforts and Future Steps,” describes most of those items as actions already taken, and the entry now says so. Two items from that list, rolling back adult trans people's gender-affirming care and letting workers and educators make anti-LGBTQ statements as protected expression, were removed because they could not be matched to the report text. The phrase “a political document masquerading as a civil rights analysis” was attributed to Annie Laurie Gaylor; LGBTQ Nation attributes it to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the entry now separates it from her quote.