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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 12, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 9365-9368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02611]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 28 / Wednesday, February 12, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Executive Order 14202 of February 6, 2025

                
Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose and Policy. It is the policy of the 
                United States, and the purpose of this order, to 
                protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the 
                anti-Christian weaponization of government. The 
                Founders established a Nation in which people were free 
                to practice their faith without fear of discrimination 
                or retaliation by their government.

                For that reason, the United States Constitution 
                enshrines the fundamental right to religious liberty in 
                the First Amendment. Federal laws like the Religious 
                Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
                2000bb et seq.), further prohibit government 
                interference with Americans' rights to exercise their 
                religion. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as 
                amended (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.), prohibits religious 
                discrimination in employment while Federal hate-crime 
                laws prohibit offenses committed due to religious 
                animus.

                Yet 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

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                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.

                Sec. 2. Establishing a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-
                Christian Bias. (a) There is hereby established within 
                the Department of Justice the Task Force to Eradicate 
                Anti-Christian Bias (Task Force).

                    (b) The Attorney General shall serve as Chair of 
                the Task Force.
                    (c) In addition to the Chair, the Task Force shall 
                consist of the following other members:

(i) the Secretary of State;

(ii) the Secretary of the Treasury;

(iii) the Secretary of Defense;

(iv) the Secretary of Labor;

(v) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;

(vi) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;

(vii) the Secretary of Education;

(viii) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;

(ix) the Secretary of Homeland Security;

(x) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;

(xi) Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations;

(xii) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration;

(xiii) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;

(xiv) the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy;

(xv) the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency;

(xvi) the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and

(xvii) the heads of such other executive departments, agencies, and offices 
that the Chair may, from time to time, invite to participate.

                Sec. 3. Task Force Functions. (a) The Task Force shall 
                meet as required by the Chair and shall take 
                appropriate action to:

(i) review the activities of all executive departments and agencies 
(agencies), including the Department of State, the Department of Justice, 
including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Labor, the 
Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, the 
Department of Homeland Security, and the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission, over the previous Administration and identify any unlawful 
anti-Christian policies, practices, or conduct by an agency contrary to the 
purpose and policy of this order;

(ii) recommend to the head of the relevant agency steps to revoke or 
terminate any violative policies, practices, or conduct identified under 
subsection (3)(a)(i) of this section and remedial actions to fulfill the 
purpose and policy of this order;

(iii) share information and develop strategies to protect the religious 
liberties of Americans and advance the purpose and policy of this order;

(iv) solicit information and ideas from a broad range of individuals and 
groups, including Americans affected by anti-Christian conduct, faith-based 
organizations, and State, local, and Tribal governments, in order to ensure 
that its work is informed by a broad spectrum of ideas and experiences;

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(v) identify deficiencies in existing laws and enforcement and regulatory 
practices that have contributed to unlawful anti-Christian governmental or 
private conduct and recommend to the relevant agency head, or recommend to 
the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and the 
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, as applicable, appropriate 
actions that agencies may take to remedy failures to fully enforce the law 
against acts of anti-Christian hostility, vandalism, and violence; and

(vi) recommend to the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for 
Policy and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, any 
additional Presidential or legislative action necessary to rectify past 
improper anti-Christian conduct, protect religious liberty, or otherwise 
fulfill the purpose and policy of this order.

                    (b) In order to advise the President regarding its 
                work and assist the President in formulating future 
                policy, the Task Force shall submit to the President, 
                through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and the 
                Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy:

(i) a report within 120 days from the date of this order regarding the Task 
Force's initial work;

(ii) a report within 1 year from the date of this order that summarizes the 
Task Force's work; and

(iii) a final report upon the dissolution of the Task Force.

                Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The heads of agencies 
                shall, to the extent permitted by law, upon the request 
                of the Chair, provide the Task Force with any 
                information required by the Task Force for the purpose 
                of carrying out its functions.

                    (b) The Department of Justice shall provide such 
                funding and administrative and technical support as the 
                Task Force may require, to the extent permitted by law 
                and as authorized by existing appropriations.

                Sec. 5. Termination. The Task Force shall terminate 2 
                years from the date of this order unless extended by 
                the President.

                Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    February 6, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-02611
Filed 2-11-25; 8:45 am]
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