Govt Religious Panel Claims Protecting Children From Child Abuse Is Anti-Christian Bias

A federal government Christian Nationalist panel claims protecting children from child abuse is anti-Christian bias.

The 2026 Report of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias calls for investigations against homeschooling parents when there is evidence they are engaged in child abuse.

Is it anti-Christian to protect children from violence and exploitation?

Today, a Christian Nationalist panel established through executive order by Donald Trump released a report of what it claims are cases of anti-Christian bias in the federal government. The report by the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias has the rather unimaginative title “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government, Pursuant to Executive Order 14202”.

Keen observers may note that the very existence of a US federal government body called The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, dedicated to eliminating any dissent from Christian religious culture, is strong evidence of pro-Christian bias in government. There is no government task force dedicated to eliminating bias against Jews, against Muslims, against Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Bahai, Wiccans, or members of any other non-Christian religion. There is no government task force dedicated to eliminating bias against non-religious Americans, although non-religious Americans are the most rapidly growing cultural minority in the United States.

The fact that Christians have a special government task force dedicated to promoting their interests, when no one other group of Americans gets such a privilege, is absent from the task force’s report. The entire 200 page report amounts to an example of a paranoid persecution complex. No other religion is as well represented in all three branches of the federal government than Christianity. Christians enjoy a disproportionately high representation in both houses of the US Congress. Christians make up a majority of Supreme Court justices. There has never been even one non-Christian President of the United States, and Christian preachers have a special office within the White House dedicated just to them.

The report from the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias is a book-length text. There’s a lot of material to get through. However, one point within the report is especially worthy of notice.

On page 130 of the report, the task force complains of “multiple allegations of harassment and mistreatment of homeschool families,” and categorizes this as a form of anti-Christian bias. Harassment and mistreatment sounds serious, until you take a look at what the supposed harassment actually was: “Allegations included accusations of child abuse; threats of referral for child welfare, neglect, or abuse investigations.”

Here’s the thing: A formal accusation and investigation of child abuse or neglect is not a kind of harassment or mistreatment. It’s a structured process that begins with evidence that may indicate a child is being endangered, and continues as a way to determine whether the suspicion of abuse is substantiated, in order to protect the child while maintaining the legal rights of the parents under suspicion.

There is not one process for child abuse accusations involving Christians and a separate process for child abuse accusations involving non-Christians. So, there is no anti-Christian bias. Nonetheless, the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias seems to count anything that Christians complain about as an instance of anti-Christian bias.

The underlying problem that the Task Force ignores is that child abuse and neglect are rampant within homeschooling communities in general. Homeschooling communities are typically dominated by right wing Christian extremists. Abusive parents often choose to homeschool their children so that evidence of abuse can be concealed. Homeschooled children are particularly vulnerable to abuse because they are rarely seen on a regular basis by adults outside their families.

A study to be published in the June 2026 edition of the Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect finds that 23% of a sample of adults who are former homeschooled children report abuse and neglect at the hands of their parents.

If 23% of public school students reported being abused and neglected by their teachers, it would be a scandal. What’s remarkable is that the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias expresses no alarm about the high number of Christian children being abused by their parents. It seems that for this Christian Nationalist government panel, the power of Christian parents outweighs the needs of Christian children.

In practice, it seems that the working definition of “anti-Christian bias” for this Task Force is so expansive as to include any government activity that happens to uncover information that makes Christians look bad. If Christians are caught engaging in criminal violence against children, the Task Force would rather that that the child abuse is covered up, giving Christian parents an elite protection from prosecution from their crimes.

The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias appears to be asking that the laws protecting children from abusive adults only apply to non-Christians.