Trump, defender of the faith

Trump, defender of the faith

Peter Kopa, Prague, August 26, 2025

President Trump’s speech: https://youtu.be/FWTQgl4VSEY

President Trump’s example to the world

In February of this year, President Trump signed an executive order to end the “anti-Christian instrumentalization” of the government and accused the Biden administration of engaging in a “heinous pattern of persecution of peaceful Christians while ignoring violent and anti-Christian crimes.” His executive order aims to eradicate anti-Christian bias in the government, accusing the previous administration of targeting peaceful Christians while turning a blind eye to violent anti-Christian attacks. https://youtu.be/82AoHfcuakE

The order condemns the actions of the Biden administration, highlighting cases in which “nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians” were prosecuted for praying outside abortion clinics. Among them were a Catholic priest, an elderly woman, and a father of 11 children. “I rectified this injustice on January 23, 2025, by granting clemency in these cases,” the president announced.

At the same time, the executive order notes that Catholic churches and pro-life organizations suffered more than 100 attacks, with the Biden Justice Department refusing to enforce the law. In 2023, the FBI dared to suggest that “radical traditionalist” Catholics posed a threat of domestic terrorism.

“The Biden Justice Department sought to silence faith in the public sphere 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 in front of abortion facilities,” President Trump said.

The executive order also establishes the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias within the Department of Justice, chaired by the attorney general and composed of senior officials from multiple federal agencies. The task force will review past government actions, identify illegal anti-Christian policies, and recommend corrective measures.

Defending freedom of expression

Trump’s policy is putting faith at the forefront of freedom of expression. In July, the Trump administration gave the green light to public displays of affection for Christ, the cross, and Christianity.

Government employees will no longer be discouraged from speaking openly about their faith in Christ or apologizing for it. Therefore, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has ruled that the restoration of these rights is consistent with the Trump team’s repeal of an anti-Christian bias entrenched in government institutions.

History of equity

In a government memorandum entitled “Protecting Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace,” the OPM first appealed to historical context. It argued that removing this bias from the civil service was of fundamental importance to the past, present, and future of the United States. This is because the United States, the OPM explains, is a nation founded on the right of individuals to “practice their faith without fear of discrimination or reprisal from their government.”

Conceptual clarity

By way of clarification, the OPM said that the legal definitions of belief do not include “social, political, or economic philosophies, or mere personal preferences.” In other words, not all beliefs or opinions are protected by law, such as feelings, perceptions, preferred pronouns, activist affiliations, an ideology, a sense of offense, or a person’s so-called microaggression. The OPM guidelines are therefore based on common sense.

Interference with working hours for religious practice, such as confession or Islamic salat, which is practiced five times a day, may also be limited. The same rule could apply to Marxist-woke sessions, Critical Race Theory, better known as “training on implicit biases.” Agencies are authorized to “require employees to perform their official work while on duty, rather than engaging in personal religious practices.”

Religious freedom and the right to free expression

The OPM’s five-point summary of permitted items includes Bibles, posters, jewelry, and artwork. They stated that no employee should be “punished or corrected” for displaying items such as “crosses, Christian icons, menorahs, or Jewish mezuzahs.” Open discussion about faith is permitted, “including attempts to persuade others of the correctness of one’s own religious views, provided that such efforts are not of a harassing nature.”

Under the new US government guidelines, employees “may also encourage their coworkers to participate in religious expressions of faith, such as prayer.” This includes protection from disciplinary action for anyone “who does not wish to participate in such conversations.”

Point five states that the right to freedom of expression is not “limited by one’s status as a government employee.”

According to the OPM, employees may discuss their personal religious beliefs regardless of location or audience.

The latest OPM guidelines revoke the requirements contained in the harmful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy pushed by Democrats through the Department of Human Resources by Biden in 2021. Biden ordered U.S. government departments to make their agencies safe spaces for preferred pronouns, “transgender and non-binary employees, and those who do not conform to gender stereotypes.”

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Sources: US government documents referenced by The Daily Declaration, Sydney, August 2025.