A Wicked Anti-Christian Administration?

A Facebook post that came across my desk recently accused the current administration of being "wicked and anti-Christian" because it's deporting illegal immigrants, most of whom have committed felonies. The allegation is ridiculous on the face of it, but to find an administration that was truly anti-Christian one need look only so far as Trump's predecessor.

An article by Chris Enloe at The Blaze explains both why the claim that the Trump administration is anti-Christian is absurd and why the Biden administration truly was.

Enloe writes:

President Donald Trump is taking more action on behalf of Christians, making good on his promise to defend the faith.

On Tuesday, prominent Christians and members of the Trump administration convened for the first meeting of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. Trump established the task force to correct the "egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses" that he said occurred in the Biden administration.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, for example, presented evidence of bias against Christian foreign service officers who homeschool their children. Rubio said the Biden administration threatened the officers with allegations of child abuse or IRS investigations if they insisted on homeschooling.

He also said Christians in the Biden administration were discriminated against for opposing DEI and LGBTQ ideology, stigmatized for opposing the COVID-19 shot, and had their religious holidays downplayed while non-Christian holidays were openly celebrated.

Enloe offers a summary of what the task force officials reported:

• FBI Director Kash Patel spoke about the anti-Catholic memo the FBI, under then-President Joe Biden, issued.
• HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about how the Biden administration targeted a Catholic hospital and exposed "progressive rules" the administration enacted against Christians hoping to become foster parents.
• Education Secretary Linda McMahon spoke about discrimination against Christians who oppose the LGBTQ agenda in education policy.
• Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender discussed "financial surveillance" of Christian organizations under the Biden administration, which allegedly included weaponization of tax classification statuses, de- banking, and labeling certain organizations as "hate groups."
• Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins revealed how the Biden administration allegedly punished a chaplain for preaching from the Bible.
• Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley spoke about the Biden administration's campaign to advance anti-Christian gender ideology on children.

But that's not all.

The task force also heard allegations that the IRS under Biden targeted churches under the guise of the Johnson Amendment and claims that Liberty University and Grand Canyon University were targeted for fines over their Christian worldview.

"As shown by our victims' stories today, Biden's Department of Justice abused and targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses," Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

Indeed, it's not an overstatement to think that the Biden administration may well have been the most antipathetic, the most hostile, toward Christianity in the history of our nation. Anyone who thinks the Trump administration is anti-Christian is apparently unaware of Trump's Holy Week Proclamation. It's hard to imagine anything like that being issued by Mr. Biden or Mr. Obama, or any Democrat, for that matter.

Enloe goes on to quote one attorney who participated in the task force meeting:

Michael Farris, a celebrated attorney, said he thought the meeting would be "small" and "informal." But he was surprised when he learned just how serious the Trump administration is about defending Christians.

"I have been in a lot of high ranking meetings in my 40+ years in DC but this was over the top," Farris said. "I was absolutely blown away. We heard frank stories of terrible treatment of Christians by the prior administration. In the military, by the FBI, by the State Department, by the Justice Department, the Education Department and more. And the solutions were swift, real, and incredibly inspiring," he continued.

"I have chaired meetings in the past where the top Christian litigators shared our most outrageous cases and where we were making plans to fight back," Farris explained. "Today’s meeting had that same spirit but with one major difference. These people actually run our government and were swiftly taking the kind of action that for a long time Christians have believed were demanded by justice. I was amazed and encouraged deeply in my soul."

There's more to Enloe's piece at the link.

President Trump identifies himself as a non-denominational Christian. How much of the Christian faith he himself actually believes, how sincerely he tries to live by it, is not for anyone outside his personal circle to say, but that his administration is populated by a significant number of genuine Christians is hard to gainsay, and that these people have a profound influence in the White House is evident, or should be evident, to anyone who cares to notice.