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Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Leader of Trump's Faith Office says she ‘submits' to husband in ‘God's order'
The leader of President Donald Trump's White House Faith Office said Wednesday that she willingly 'submits' to her husband, whom she dubbed the 'head' of her household. 'God has an order,' Paula White-Cain told right-wing media outlet Real America's Voice as she described her vision of the divinely dictated relationship between men and women. 'Look, the head of my household is my husband, Jonathan Cain, period,' she emphasized. 'If there's ever a time that a decision has to be made and we don't agree on something, he's the head,' she added, going on to say it's 'not hard to submit' to her husband. White-Cain, who has been divorced twice, got her start as a televangelist. She also served as Trump's spiritual adviser and helped lead his Evangelical advisory board during his first presidency. Trump established the Faith Office, which White-Cain now leads, via executive order on February 7. That same month, he established the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The task force held its first meeting this week, discussing how many were 'unfairly targeted by the Biden Administration for their religious beliefs," according to the Justice Department. The Department of Veterans Affairs similarly launched its own task force, ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of "anti-Christian bias," Newsweek reports. "The VA Task Force now requests all VA employees to submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination to Anti-ChristianBiasReporting.@ the email read. "Submissions should include sufficient identifiers such as names, dates, and locations." Meanwhile, White-Cain claimed last year that Trump asked her for God's opinion on his decision to run for president, recalling that Trump told her he wanted to run for president in 2011 because he didn't 'like the way this country is going.' 'I told him what I thought,' she said. 'And then he turned around, and he said, 'Well, what does God say?'' White-Cain said she prayed with dozens of her friends before delivering an answer to Trump: 'I said, 'Sir … you're going to be president one day.'' She went on to warn Trump about taking on the presidency: 'I hate the price that you're going to pay,' she recalled telling him.
The Independent
24-04-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Leader of Trump's Faith Office says she happily ‘submits' to her husband under ‘God's order'
The leader of President Donald Trump 's White House Faith Office said Wednesday that she willingly 'submits' to her husband, whom she dubbed the 'head' of her household. 'God has an order,' Paula White -Cain told right-wing media outlet Real America's Voice as she described her vision of the divinely dictated relationship between men and women. 'Look, the head of my household is my husband, Jonathan Cain, period,' she emphasized. 'If there's ever a time that a decision has to be made and we don't agree on something, he's the head,' she added, going on to say it's 'not hard to submit' to her husband. White-Cain, who has been divorced twice, got her start as a televangelist. She also served as Trump's spiritual adviser and helped lead his Evangelical advisory board during his first presidency. Trump established the Faith Office, which White-Cain now leads, via executive order on February 7. That same month, he established the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The task force held its first meeting this week, discussing how many were 'unfairly targeted by the Biden Administration for their religious beliefs," according to the Justice Department. The Department of Veterans Affairs similarly launched its own task force, ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of "anti-Christian bias," Newsweek reports. "The VA Task Force now requests all VA employees to submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination to Anti-ChristianBiasReporting.@ the email read. "Submissions should include sufficient identifiers such as names, dates, and locations." Meanwhile, White-Cain claimed last year that Trump asked her for God's opinion on his decision to run for president, recalling that Trump told her he wanted to run for president in 2011 because he didn't 'like the way this country is going.' 'I told him what I thought,' she said. 'And then he turned around, and he said, 'Well, what does God say?'' White-Cain said she prayed with dozens of her friends before delivering an answer to Trump: 'I said, 'Sir … you're going to be president one day.'' She went on to warn Trump about taking on the presidency: 'I hate the price that you're going to pay,' she recalled telling him.
Newsweek
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Trump Admin Ramps Up Bid To Eliminate 'Anti-Christian Bias'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The Trump administration is intensifying efforts to root out what it calls "anti-Christian bias" in the government. The White House in February established the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the federal government, led by the attorney general Pam Bondi, aimed at protecting the "religious freedoms of Americans" and ending the "anti-Christian weaponization of government." This week, the task force held its first meeting, at which attendees discussed how they were allegedly "unfairly targeted by the Biden Administration for their religious beliefs," according to a Justice Department press release. The veterans affairs department (VA) has now reportedly established its own task force and is ordering staff to report colleagues to the unit for instances of "anti-Christian bias," according to The Guardian. President Donald Trump is seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 22, 2025. President Donald Trump is seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 22, 2025. Alex Brandon/AP Why It Matters The launch of the task forces comes as part of a broader push by Donald Trump to embed a conservative Christian agenda within the federal government. What To Know In an internal email seen by The Guardian, VA secretary Doug Collins said his department had launched a task force to review the Biden administration's "treatment of Christians." Newsweek has not seen the email, but has reached out to the VA department via email for confirmation. "The VA Task Force now requests all VA employees to submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination to Anti-ChristianBiasReporting.@ the email read. "Submissions should include sufficient identifiers such as names, dates, and locations." The email added that the department will review "all instances of anti-Christian bias" but that it is specifically seeking instances including "any informal policies, procedures, or unofficially understandings hostile to Christian views." In addition, the department is seeking "any adverse responses to requests for religious exemptions under the previous vaccine mandates" and "any retaliatory actions taken or threatened in response to abstaining from certain procedures or treatments (for example: abortion or hormone therapy)." It comes after the State Department earlier in April issued a directive asking employees to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias that may have occurred during the Biden administration. The VA taskforce is separate from the one led by Bondi. In February, Trump said Bondi's taskforce would work to "fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide." At the first meeting of the taskforce, Trump administration officials and religious leaders presented a series of allegations claiming widespread anti-Christian bias under the Biden administration. Attorney Michael Farris, speaking on behalf of a Virginia church, said the IRS had investigated it for alleged violations of the Johnson Amendment, which requires churches to refrain from participating in political campaigns if they want to keep their tax-exempt status. Representatives from Liberty University and Grand Canyon University also claimed their institutions were unfairly fined because of their Christian worldview. Additional allegations included the denial of religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for military personnel, biased treatment of Christian Foreign Service Officers, and efforts to suppress Christian expression in federal schools and agencies. Critics further accused the Biden administration of marginalizing Christian holidays while giving prominence to non-Christian observances, and of sidelining faith-based foster care providers. Speakers also alleged that Christian federal employees were retaliated against for opposing DEI and LGBT-related policies that conflicted with their religious beliefs. There is no current evidence that such discrimination took place under the Biden administration. Nonetheless, Trump has previously claimed that then-President Joe Biden weaponized the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to attack his political opponents, including Christians. In a video posted to his Truth Social platform in December 2023, Trump accused the FBI and DOJ of sending undercover spies to churches to persecute people of faith. "Under Crooked Joe Biden, Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted like nothing this nation has ever seen before," Trump wrote. "Catholics, in particular, are being targeted and evangelicals are surely on the watch list as well. Over the past three years, the Biden administration has sent SWAT teams to arrest pro-life activists. The FBI has been caught profiling devout Catholics as possible domestic terrorists and planning to send undercover spies into Catholic churches, just like in the old days of the Soviet Union." A leaked FBI document from February 2023 said the bureau's Richmond, Virginia, office had warned agents of an extremist threat posed by "radical-traditionalist Catholics," whom the bureau said were a small minority within the Catholic Church. The memo was then removed because the federal agency said it failed to meet the "exacting standards of the FBI." Last April, the FBI was exonerated by a DOJ review that found investigators did not intend to target traditional Catholics as potential "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists," Fox News reported. The DOJ Inspector General review noted that analysts "incorrectly conflated" an investigative subject's religious views with his alleged domestic terrorism activities. What People Are Saying Attorney General Pamela Bondi said: "As shown by our victims' stories today, Biden's Department of Justice abused and targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses. Thanks to President Trump, we have ended those abuses, and we will continue to work closely with every member of this Task Force to protect every American's right to speak and worship freely." Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said in a statement: "If Trump really cared about religious freedom and ending religious persecution, he'd be addressing antisemitism in his inner circle, anti-Muslim bigotry, hate crimes against people of color and other religious minorities. "This taskforce is not a response to Christian persecution; it's an attempt to make America into an ultra-conservative Christian nationalist nation." What Happens Next Further details about the VA taskforce have not yet been released.
The Guardian
22-04-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias'
The Veterans Affairs department (VA) is ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of 'anti-Christian bias' to a newly established taskforce, as part of Donald Trump's push to reshape government policy on religious expression. VA secretary Doug Collins, in an internal email seen by the Guardian, said the department had launched a taskforce to review the Biden administration's 'treatment of Christians'. 'The VA Task Force now requests all VA employees to submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination to Anti-ChristianBiasReporting.@ the email reads. 'Submissions should include sufficient identifiers such as names, dates, and locations.' The email states that the department will review 'all instances of anti-Christian bias' but that it is specifically seeking instances including 'any informal policies, procedures, or unofficially understandings hostile to Christian views'. In addition, the department is seeking 'any adverse responses to requests for religious exemptions under the previous vaccine mandates' and 'any retaliatory actions taken or threatened in response to abstaining from certain procedures or treatments (for example: abortion or hormone therapy)'. Donald Trump signed an executive order within weeks of his second term aimed at ending the 'anti-Christian weaponization of government', and announced the formation of a taskforce, led by the attorney general Pam Bondi, to end all forms of 'anti-Christian targeting and discrimination' in the government. Bondi would work to 'fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide', Trump said in February. Critics were quick to condemn Trump's announcement at the time as a thinly veiled attempt to privilege evangelical Christianity over other religious minorities. 'If Trump really cared about religious freedom and ending religious persecution, he'd be addressing antisemitism in his inner circle, anti-Muslim bigotry, hate crimes against people of color and other religious minorities,' the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Rachel Laser, said in a statement. 'This taskforce is not a response to Christian persecution; it's an attempt to make America into an ultra-conservative Christian nationalist nation.'
