Studying a single issue over time often reveals important trends, and one trend there to observe is an increasing amount of hostility toward Christian churches and schools across the United States. Most recently, a former student at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota came to an afternoon Mass and shot 19 people, two fatally.

“The shooter was very openly disdainful of Christianity and Christian symbols,” director of Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty Arielle Del Turco said on “Washington Watch.” “He had a picture of Jesus attached to a shooting target in his room, and he was posting videos about this. He had a magazine for one of his rifles that tauntingly said, ‘Where is your God?’”

Immediately after the mass shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey gave a news conference where “he was speaking about how important it is not to vilify the transgender community,” noted The Post Millennial’s Libby Emmons on “Washington Watch.” “He spoke at length, not just at that news conference, but later in the day, about how important it was not to vilify the transgender community.”

Now, why would Frey frame his comments as if people who identify as transgender were the victims? Wasn’t a Catholic school the target of the attack? Didn’t the attacker make his anti-Christian animus clear? Why the rush to defend........

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