The claims of Trump and of the sycophants around him that Christianity is discriminated against and persecuted in the United States are patently false, and this is just one example among many. We'll see where this goes. But it is highly likely that Boelter will not, in any way, receive the same treatment or sentence that any radicalized Muslim in the United States would receive for doing exactly the same thing.

Wanna bet on it?

Let's observe, carefully, exactly how this specific conservative Evangelical, Vance Boelter, who is now the prime suspect in a political assassination which also included the homicide of a spouse, two attempted murders, one a political assassination, and a conspiracy to commit more assassinations, will be treated. The lies and distortions, and defending what he did, are already pouring out of the far right. Let's observe how his religious background is handled, and whether terms like "radicalized" are tossed around by the media. Ultimately, the test will be the plea deal that he makes with the prosecution, and how they will handle this particular case, compared to what we have seen in similar situations where the defendant has not been white, or Christian.

I am going to conclude, in advance, based on observation of the world in which we live, that the grievances of the Evangelicals referenced in the Baptist News Global article linked above are completely bogus and false. The premise for which Trump's religious liberty commission exists is that Christians are discriminated against and marginalized in American society, and that is an absolutely false contention. White Christians are the single most privileged group among all Americans, and while the decline in their numbers, and some court rulings from the sixties pushed back against that, it is still a fact. And this incident, and the manner in which the media is already handling it, is proof of that.