How the hell could a private citizen get ahold of data from a dating app? It turns out it wasn't that hard.

So this nonprofit, which got money from a bunch of wealthy contributors and some other sources inside the church, purchased information from data brokers who said that they got information from ad exchanges.

They purchased that, and then they cross-referenced the location data from the apps with information that they got from diocese around the countries, from bishops who are participating with them, to say, "Where do these guys live? Where do they hang out?" Like, they actually mapped out, like, where all the different priests were located, and that's how they did it, basically.

On top of the personal fallout, Michelle told me the priest was unable to hold anyone accountable for the breach of privacy.

His career was certainly not, if not ruined, I mean, hugely derailed.

As far as I know, he wasn't really able to get very far with the litigation.

But I think there was a really big backlash.

Like, this is like surveillance on priests and, and bishops, like their whole relationship with each other to know that their bishops were, like, tracking them essentially and sharing their personal information and location with other people and that kind of thing.

Who is attending, and how unusual is this?

So he started last year, pretty soon after taking office, holding these monthly, um, worship sessions at the Pentagon with him involved, him hosting, and different evangelical conservative pastors.

And what's unusual, I mean, obviously faith and religion in the military, just like in the country, is, you know, it's a very rich and diverse faith community there.

There's chaplains all over the place who are supposed to take care of people of all faiths and no faith.

But to have a service like this that is led by the defense secretary, experts tell us, is unprecedented in modern times.

Um, and it's sort of a strategy that, that Hegseth seems to be using to try to fortify that type of Christianity in the military.

He recently suspended the, um, Army spiritual guide, saying that it was too therapeutic and too focused on emotional health and not enough on religious or theological truth.

What are you hearing from inside the ranks? How are troops responding to this? Are there service members who don't share Hegseth's beliefs, which I'm guessing is a lot of them, and are they feeling sidelined? Are they facing consequences?

Give us a little more detail on what that office is doing right now or at least what they're tasked with doing.

Yeah.

The, there's a little bit more information about that task force compared to the religious freedom one.

Um, basically, the, the administration put out when they had a, you know, a formal announcement of the anti-Christian bias task force, uh, what they considered to be examples.

And the examples were things like churches that didn't want to have to wear masks or stay open or, um, a church in Virginia whose, um, pastor wanted to explicitly endorse Trump.

So they really weren't about religion so much as they were sort of about p- partisan politics or that kind of thing, which obviously have merged in our society in a lot of ways.

So, um, yeah.

So Michelle, if the data doesn't support this idea that there is anti-Christian bias, how would you characterize the way the Trump administration is using anti-discrimination laws compared to how they were designed to be used?