According to journalist Chris Rufo’s most recent report, the United States has become a global leader in enlarging gay activists and priorities into state organizations, with consequences for including pursuing Christians for government harassment.
Rufo information, for example, that President Joe Biden appointed to the State Department as” a special envoy to improve the individual freedom of LGBTI+ people” a “gender advocate” named Jessica Stern. Stern formerly served as OutRight Action International’s professional director and assisted in the establishment of the LGBTI Core Group at the United Nations.
The United States is a leader in influencing international institutions to hire physical activists like Stern for open positions. According to a recent report from the UK, Stonewall, the most powerful LGBT team in the country, organized joint activities between public authorities. The report found a” search and destroy” targeting of Christians in the U. K. resulting in loss of employment, unnecessary legal charges, economical degradation, and abuse that has escalated in some cases to bodily problems.
“]T] these appears some proof of a ‘ research and damage’ operational approach by interest groups in education, business, finance, the health service, and even within government departments”, says the report from the Commission of Inquiry into Discrimination Against Christians. There is very frequently an established connection between the system in question and organizations like Stonewall, according to Stonewall.
Gay protesters are ad-hoc by leftist politicians for state positions.
Political radical campaigners that leftist politicians support frequently work for taxpayers. U. S. advocate organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Human Rights Campaign, for example, intentionally website Christians with love groups like the Ku Klux Klan, said Tyler O’Neil, managing director of The Daily Signal. In a book out in January 2025, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government, O’Neil examines the Biden-Harris administration’s deep ties to SPLC and HRC, noting that employees of both organizations have visited the White House at least 18 times each since January 2021.
The Biden-Harris administration has implemented at least 75 percent of HRC’s” Blueprint for Positive Change“, O’Neil said. The plan includes a detailed wishlist for transgenderism-promoting policies. They include rewriting federal civil rights laws to make it illegal for male athletes to compete in both girls and women’s sports, stifling Christian therapists from offering talk therapy to help gender-confused children overcome their innate sex, and promoting transgender medical care.
In an earlier book, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, O’Neil describes the SPLC’s radical advocacy for transgender ideology. The group placed Christians alongside KKK chapters on a “hate map,” which led to a terrorist attack at the conservative Christian organization The Family Research Council in 2012.
The SPLC uses this “hate map” to raise money, denigrate these groups from polite society, and demand that charitable organizations blacklist them and present them as a potential terror threat, according to O’Neil. The SPLC says that the opposition to transgender orthodoxy is a form of extremism and hate, and that it does so while disparaging all orthodox Christians who think God created people who are unalterably male and female as bigots.
The U. S. State Department’s “latest annual LGBTQI+ progress report lists countless present and future efforts across all foreign agencies to make the world safe for queer theory, from’ Pride Events at Headquarters’ to ‘ Gender Equity in the Mexican Workplace,'” Rufo reports. ” Among these is a department-wide partnership with the Global Equality Fund, a public-private entity ‘ dedicated to advancing and defending the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons around the world ‘ that has directed funds to 116″ grassroots “LGBTQI+ organizations in 73 countries”.
The Biden-Harris administration nominated Nancy Abudu, the SPLC’s deputy legal director, to serve as a top federal judge in 2023. That same year, the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, office relied upon SPLC’s framing of traditional Christians as domestic extremists, proposing to monitor Christians as potential violent threats merely for attending theologically conservative churches.
The Biden administration’s position on trans issues is a blueprint for a sizable enlargement of federal power, with trans activists serving as the beneficiaries and Christians and other resisters as the most likely losers, according to Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute. According to O’Neil, support of radical transgender policies creates an anti-Christian orthodoxy that sends a ominous and threatening message to Christian faithfulness in the United States.  ,
Social Leftism Leads to Attacks on Christians
CatholicVote, a leading Christian advocacy organization, has documented at least 400 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and churches between 2022 and 2024. After Roe v. Wade was overturned, CatholicVote President Brian Burch requested that the U. S. Department of Justice investigate violence against pro-lifers in a 2022 letter, noting the administration’s apparent support of pro-abortion groups and dismissal of crimes against pro-life Americans.
The world’s largest grassroots movement, 40 Days for Life, has been banned from peaceful prayer and protest outside of abortion facilities in some U. K. countries. England’s ban went into effect this Halloween, following in the footsteps of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
” In the U. K., this has been, unfortunately, a long ongoing process with the LGBTQ community”, said Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life president and CEO. ” They are very militant. They detest Christians and any representation of God in the nation. ]40 Days for Life ] is in 64 countries and it was easier to work for free speech in China, downtown Berlin, and Moscow than in London. That is based on our field of experience. It’s outright bigotry”.
He noted that Christians frequently prevail in court when they object to harassment based on their religious beliefs. To date the 40 Days for Life legal defense arm, the Institute of Law and Justice, has yet to lose one case in protecting pro-lifers, he said. The Becket Fund, the Becket Fund, the Pacific Justice Institute, Liberty Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, and other organizations regularly defend Christians in court against political harassment based on their beliefs.
In 2022, officials in Westchester County, New York passed an ordinance similar to the U. K. bans that criminalize silent prayer near abortion facilities. Forty Days for Life responded with a lawsuit, which is likely to bring the case before the Supreme Court.  ,
” We won the first provision, we’re going after them very hard, and we’re going to win the second provision,” Carney said. ” We are going to]set a precedent ] to end buffer zones in America”.
The Napa Legal Institute released its annual” Faith and Freedom Index” in October, which ranks state-by-state religious freedom protections. Many American citizens fear the loss of their freedoms, the report stated.
” Now is the time for states that do not have robust protections of these rights to move towards doing so”, said Mary Margaret Beecher, Napa Legal’s vice president and executive director, in a statement.
In America, more and more legal cases are being brought against doctors who advocate for transgender equality in their care. Attorney General of Texas, Texas Attorney General, filed a lawsuit against a pediatrician earlier this month who had outlawed the practice by treating minors with opposite-sex hormones.
” Christians can defend their rights in a myriad of ways”, O’Neil said. ” We can choose candidates who either represent our values or who reject demonization.” If we see businesses that we work for, as well as our banks that we work for, or groups that we belong to working with organizations like HRC and SPLC, we can speak up.
Ashley Bateman blogs for Ascension Press and writes for The Heartland Institute about policy. Her work has been featured in The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, The New York Post, The American Thinker and numerous other publications. She previously held positions as editor, writer, and photographer for The Warner Weekly, a publication for the German-speaking American military community in Bamberg. She previously held positions as adjunct scholars for The Lexington Institute. A Catholic homeschool cooperative in Virginia has Ashley on the board. Along with her brilliant engineer/scientist husband, she educates four of her incredible children at home.
