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The wellness company OneTaste is currently on trial for the sham charge of “Forced Labor Conspiracy,” a desperate case built during the peak hysteria of the #MeToo movement. This lawfare campaign, brought to us by the Biden regime holdovers in the Eastern District of New York, claims that consenting adults who willingly joined a spiritual wellness community were somehow transformed into makeshift slaves.
This case should have never made it to trial. It’s propped up by a disgraceful cocktail of fake evidence, paid witnesses, FBI misconduct, propaganda media and Netflix documentaries, and political bias. From day one, this has been about punishing beliefs and scoring #MeToo points, not proving or punishing actual crimes.
Lead prosecutor Assistant US Attorney Kaitlin Farrell made that painfully clear in court when she basically admitted what this case is really about. In her recent remarks, Farrell revealed that the OneTaste prosecution is built on criminalizing thoughts and beliefs, not actual actions. Here are her chilling words:
I think, as your Honor understands, our theory of the case is that the defendants put some the testifying witnesses, our victims, in psychological distress and also taught them concepts that taught them basically to consent to everything and to be willing to engage in certain sexual activities that even at the time they would have viewed as something they wouldn’t consent to, but they did so because they were taught this was a philosophy or a religious practice that was good for them, and if they continued to do it they would reach enlightenment.
Let’s break this down: if you hold a spiritual or personal belief and actually live by it, the US government thinks that might be a crime. That’s not justice; that’s straight-up Marxist-style control. The OneTaste case isn’t about proving force or fraud. It’s about turning unconventional beliefs into “coercion” and rewriting consent to fit some state-approved script.
So, if the DOJ can twist spiritual or alternative beliefs into thought crimes, it sets the stage for something much bigger, doesn’t it? What happens when traditional religious practices come under fire? Church discipline, Christian counseling, Jewish or Muslim teachings—all of it could be on the chopping block. This isn’t just a trial. It’s the start of a very dangerous precedent.
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That’s exactly why former Trump administration attorney James Lawrence is speaking out. James is based in North Carolina and served as deputy general counsel at HHS and later as general counsel at the FDA under President Trump. He also successfully litigated the first lawsuit against Twitter on behalf of New York Times journalist Alex Berenson. Now he’s sounding the alarm, warning that what these lawfare prosecutors are doing in the OneTaste case could reshape religious freedom in America. In a recent memo, he fired back at the lead prosecutor’s attempt to criminalize “thought crimes” and explained how that move could put people of faith directly in the government’s crosshairs.
Some Americans, including Christians who seek to obey Jesus Christ’s call to sexual purity in Matthew 5:27-28, may find OneTaste’s teachings distasteful and/or morally objectionable. Meanwhile, OneTaste points to faithful Christians, Muslims, and Jews who have followed Daedone’s teachings within their marriages to build stronger relationships with one another. The R-rated allegations in the government’s case aside, it would be one thing if Cherwitz and Daedone were on trial for sexual assault, sex trafficking, prostitution, or facilitating adultery, but they are not. Cherwitz and Daedone are being prosecuted for exerting coercive control over other adults under a statute aimed at sex trafficking—in many ways their beliefs are on trial. Under the First Amendment, if Cherwitz and Daedone’s beliefs were “popular,” they would be “easy enough to defend,” but “[i]t is in protecting unpopular religious beliefs” like theirs “that we prove this country’s commitment to serving as a refuge for religious freedom.”
If the government is successful in amending the TVPA to criminalize coercive control, Christians and other religious believers could find themselves the target of prosecutions by future administrations. Consider what could be coming for evangelical Christians. As noted above, the academic project to frame conservative evangelical Christians and their beliefs as “coercive” is well underway. Using the prosecution of Cherwitz and Daedone as a roadmap, future administrations can point to evangelicals’ efforts to “intentionally recruit” people with a “history of trauma” as part of their efforts to spread the Gospel. Christian discipleship, particularly small groups in churches where members hold themselves accountable for sin, becomes an instrument of “control” and “intimidation.” To the extent members are encouraged to avoid temptation, those efforts “isolate” victims. Labor is extracted from members who serve in church ministries. Finally, public excommunication, the last resort in church discipline cases, becomes the last step in a campaign of “shame and humiliation.” Other faiths that engage in similar shunning practices run the same risk.
The Trump Administration is taking religious freedom and anti-Christian bias seriously. In February, President Trump issued an executive order on “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias.” Exec. Order No. 14202, Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias, 90 Fed. Reg. 9365 (Feb. 12, 2025). In the order, President Trump noted that “the previous Administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians.” Id. at 9365. President Trump ordered that his “Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians,” and “protect[] the freedom of Americans and groups of Americans to practice their faith in peace,” while “ensur[ing] that any unlawful and improper conduct, policies, or practices that target Christians are identified, terminated, and rectified.” Id. at 9366. Dropping the case against Cherwitz and Daedone, which would remove a cudgel a future administration could use to threaten Christians and other people of faith with up to twenty years in prison, 18 U.S.C. § 1589(d), would be consistent with this order.
Read the full memo here in pdf form…
Lawfare cases like this always start under the phony guise of punishing political or social dissent. But they’re never just about that, are they? No. These cases are designed to carve out loopholes, set new precedents, and quietly expand the regime’s power. The OneTaste trial is no exception. It opens the door to something much bigger… the ability to criminalize beliefs, ideas, and eventually, religion itself. And of course the left would go there. They’ll tell you they’re attacking spirituality for your own good, then plow ahead without a second thought. After all, faith stands in the way of their total control.
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These are dangerous times, and if we don’t fight back, we’ll lose every last freedom we have, one sham trial at a time.
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