The day after Trump’s inauguration, the president attended an interfaith service at the National Cathedral. During the sermon, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde urged Trump to consider the human dignity of immigrants, refugees, and members of the transgender community. She spoke out of Christian conviction. But Trump said that Budde was “nasty in tone.” Some of his most ardent supporters in the House of Representatives offered a resolution condemning Budde. The bishop is now facing death threats.
Yesterday, Trump issued an executive order titled, “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias.” Here is a taste:
…the previous Administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses. The Biden Department of Justice sought to squelch faith in the public square by bringing Federal criminal charges and obtaining in numerous cases multi-year prison sentences against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians for praying and demonstrating outside abortion facilities. Those convicted included a Catholic priest and 75-year-old grandmother, as well as an 87-year-old woman and a father of 11 children who were arrested 18 months after praying and singing hymns outside an abortion facility in Tennessee as a part of a politically motivated prosecution campaign by the Biden Administration. I rectified this injustice on January 23, 2025, by issuing pardons in these cases.
At the same time, Catholic churches, charities, and pro-life centers sought justice for violence, theft, and arson perpetrated against them, which the Biden Department of Justice largely ignored. After more than 100 attacks, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning this violence and calling on the Biden Administration to enforce the law.
Then, in 2023, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memorandum asserted that “radical-traditionalist” Catholics were domestic-terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches as “threat mitigation.” This later-retracted FBI memorandum cited as support evidence propaganda from highly partisan sources.
The Biden Department of Education sought to repeal religious-liberty protections for faith-based organizations on college campuses. The Biden Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sought to force Christians to affirm radical transgender ideology against their faith. And the Biden Department of Health and Human Services sought to drive Christians who do not conform to certain beliefs on sexual orientation and gender identity out of the foster-care system. The Biden Administration declared March 31, 2024 — Easter Sunday — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
In this atmosphere of anti-Christian government, hostility and vandalism against Christian churches and places of worship surged, with the number of such identified acts in 2023 exceeding by more than eight times the number from 2018. Catholic churches and institutions have been aggressively targeted with hundreds of acts of hostility, violence, and vandalism.
My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians. The law protects the freedom of Americans and groups of Americans to practice their faith in peace, and my Administration will enforce the law and protect these freedoms. My Administration will ensure that any unlawful and improper conduct, policies, or practices that target Christians are identified, terminated, and rectified.
Read the entire executive order here.
I wonder if Trump’s attacks on Budde would, according to his executive order, be considered “anti-Christian bias.” After all, Budde is a bishop in a Christian denomination.
Here’s another thought. If persecution is falling on Christians, shouldn’t this, according to the Beatitudes, be a good thing? I don’t remember Jesus saying, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for they will get an executive order.”
So what are evangelicals saying about this executive order?:
Albert Mohler says that the order is “sadly necessary–and serious”:
Huge!:
Wolfe runs the Center for Baptist Leadership:
This Southern Baptist theobro and Albert Mohler disciple calls the order “very good”:
Michael Youssef welcomes the order:
Paula White is on the beat:
Not everyone is happy about White’s role in the Trump administration, including this Southern Baptist:
Lance Wallnau is talking with Steve Bannon:
The Faith & Freedom Coalition seems happy about this:
Of course Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is all in:
King Josiah:
“Wow”:
Greg Laurie senses a “new wind”:
Sean and Lauren appear to be reunited:
More King Josiah:
While the mutual adoration society keeps worshiping Trumpy, could they take a minute to remind his orange highness that??:
https://www.reformaustin.org/politics/30000-tons-of-usaid-food-stranded-at-houston-port/
But maybe the recipients aren’t Christians, so who cares? Wouldn’t wanted them to receive food tainted by USAID labels!
Did I miss something in the Gospels about it’s OK to be cruel to those who didn’t vote for Prez Musk and his minion, Trumpy?
Onward Faux Christian Soldiers:
Trump Calls for Rehiring of DOGE Staffer Who Resigned Over Racist Posts
(https://apple.news/Ap-ew6AUnSruRZN0I_UiUnw)
Maybe if one reads between the lines of the Sermon on the Mount, one can find where unchristian behavior is perfectly fine. I’m not seeing it, but maybe hours of Christian Nationalist videos can warp my mind correctly.
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or anything other than humanistic soliloquies that sound good, in a virtue signaling way, but are empty in Scriptural context.
Compassion has nothing to do with what the J B administration was doing in the open border policies, that flooded the country and
undermined cities, schools, and bankrupting budgets with give-away social programs.