Religious Freedom: Four Ways to Recover It after Biden-Harris Attacks

After the assaults on religious freedom during the last four years of the Biden-Harris administration, the new Trump administration has a great deal of malicious damage to repair. From attacks on foster parents of faith to attempts to strongarm religious hospitals into procedures at odds with their beliefs, the extent of the obsessive opposition to religious freedom has been relentless.

I’m very optimistic that we can recover our first freedom, as it’s often called. But it won’t be easy, because the progressive bureaucracies contemptuous of the consciences of Americans of faith, while they will inevitably lose crucial access to the White House after January 20, are still resourceful and extremely well funded.

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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is director of the Conscience Project and recipient of the Religious Freedom Institute’s 2025 Religious Freedom Impact Award.

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After the assaults on religious freedom during the last four years of the Biden-Harris administration, the new Trump administration has a great deal of malicious damage to repair. From attacks on foster parents of faith to attempts to strongarm religious hospitals into procedures at odds with their beliefs, the extent of the obsessive opposition to religious freedom has been relentless.

I’m very optimistic that we can recover our first freedom, as it’s often called. But it won’t be easy, because the progressive bureaucracies contemptuous of the consciences of Americans of faith, while they will inevitably lose crucial access to the White House after January 20, are still resourceful and extremely well funded.