The Jeff Sessions "Religious Liberty Task Force"

[Angrboda]

For good or for ill, any government intervention on behalf of religion is going to favor the majority by simple consequence of the fact that they are the majority. Even if the religious task force is implemented fairly, that means that efforts to protect religious minorities will be fewer than those undertaken to protect Christians against persecution and discrimination. That on its own seems enough to guarantee that it fails constitutional muster. I think the founding fathers had it right in keeping government and religion completely separate. Both Bush and Trump administrations have sought to get around that separation by implementing pro-religious policies through mechanisms other than passing laws, thus doing an end run around the first amendment. The end result is essentially guaranteed, more money and resources will go to protecting one religion than any other.

(And this is beyond the fact that supposed discrimination against Christianity is largely a myth, so the implementation of a religious task force is likely to end up discriminating in favor of Christianity by championing false claims of discrimination, pushing religious minorities further into the background. I'm extremely skeptical of any supposed benefit to religious minorities from such a task force. Protection of religious minorities has perennially gotten the shaft, and now it's simply going to be justified by an appeal to the majority status of Christianity, regardless of whether there's any such need or not.)