On Tuesday, the same day as the inaugural meeting of the anti-Christian bias task force, Collins sent an email to all VA employees, asking them to anonymously report any offenses. Workers should speak up, he wrote, about any policies “hostile to Christian views” or any punishments for displaying Christian symbols.
Collins’ email—like Trump’s executive order creating the anti-bias task force—mentions only Christianity, not other faiths.
Critics of Anti-Christian Bias Task Force Speak Out
Some critics said the Trump administration’s anti-Christian bias efforts are merely a way to champion ultra-conservatism. Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the task force is “part of the Christian Nationalist crusade to remake our country.”
Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and head of Christians Against Christian Nationalism, has said she fears that the new task force “could be weaponized to enforce a theological conformity that will harm everyone’s religious freedom, including those of Christians.”
Trump’s executive order to root out anti-Christian bias, Tyler added, was “consistent with inflaming the completely unfounded claims of rampant Christian persecution in a majority-Christian nation.”
, the new Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the federal government met for the first time. Behind closed doors, attendees shared stories of alleged harm caused by the “anti-Christian sentiment” of the Biden administration.){kind=link}