Originally published at The Crux
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A Trump administration task force has alleged wide-ranging discrimination against Christians during the tenure of former President Joe Biden, claiming in a new report they were targeted in areas such as education, tax law and prosecution of pro-life protesters.
Progressive groups criticized the report, saying it fails to document a pattern of discrimination, focuses on causes favored by conservative Christians and amounts to “advocacy dressed up as investigation.”
The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, created within the Justice Department by President Donald Trump last year, issued its conclusions Thursday in a 200-page report.
“When Christian beliefs about morality and human nature conflicted with the Biden Administration’s views, religious rights often suffered,” the report said.
Report alleges an unfair hard line against conservatives
The task force — which included numerous Cabinet secretaries — didn’t accuse the Biden administration of any large pattern of suppressing churches themselves or the right to worship. But the report did accuse it of taking a hard line against those who advocated for conservative policies on the basis of their faith in such areas as abortion, gender, school curriculum and vaccine exemptions.
“The Biden Administration generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously
