Biden White House Refuses to Say Killing Nashville Christians is a Hate Crime
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The Covenant School shooting victims (top row) Katherine Koonce, Mike Hill, Cynthia Peak, (bottom row) Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney.
As I reflect on this Easter weekend about the state of the nation, it is disheartening to feel as though the Biden Administration has a bias against Christians. I know President Joe Biden’s defenders will quickly point out, “But he’s Catholic!” Judas was a disciple; he betrayed Jesus, nonetheless.
When White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if it would be a hate crime if the Nashville shooter—who killed three nine-year-old students and three staffers at a Christian school—targeted them because they are Christian, Jean-Pierre said it wasn’t their place to say.
When she was asked about the Buffalo shooter, she was quick to call that a hate crime while it was still being investigated. “We don’t need anything else to state a clear moral truth. Right? Which is a racial motivated hate crime is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation. Hate must not have a safe harbor.” She went on to say we must do everything possible to “end hate-filled domestic terrorism.”
Why is it not a hate crime if a woman who identified as a man killed six Christians in Tennessee, where they’ve been introducing legislation trans activists and the media deem as hateful? Ever since the shooting, the White House has been talking nonstop about how victimized the trans community is. Days after the Nashville shooting, Jean-Pierre said from the podium, “Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now.”
Yesterday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris tweeted they were angry with the Tennessee GOP expelling state representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, after leading a protest mob and disrupting chamber proceedings with bullhorns.
The female member, Gloria Johnson, was nearly ousted as well, but she was more apologetic and less aggressive than her co-conspirators. Though she only survived by one vote, the narrative from the media is Johnson was spared because she is white.
“Three kids and three officials gunned down in yet another mass shooting. And what are GOP officials focused on? Punishing lawmakers who joined thousands of peaceful protesters calling for action,” Biden tweeted. “It's shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent.”
Again, Biden’s administration wouldn’t even call this a hate crime. As a matter of fact, he made a joke when a reporter told him Senator Josh Hawley believed the victims were targeted because they were Christian. “I probably don’t then.” Biden then laughed and claimed to be joking.
Kamala Harris made time to visit the “Tennessee 3” but hasn’t said or done much for the families of the victims.
Now, is this because they particularly dislike Christians? If this were a black private school or a black church and the shooter was a white supremacist, this would easily be called a hate crime. The narrative would be about racism and guns. There wouldn’t be commentary about the religious persecution of Christians.
But the shooter was transgender and within Biden’s protected class of interest. The amount of sympathy from activists and the media for a child murderer has been alarming. There have been articles explaining how her Christian family didn’t accept her gender identity, protests honoring “seven victims” instead of six, and social media influencers demanding her male pronouns be respected. More than alarming; it’s dangerous because it encourages some other deranged activist to do the same. A 19-year-old transwoman was recently arrested for planning a mass shooting at schools and churches, though his attack has been in the works for a month or two, according to Fox News. We don’t want this to spread.
School shootings are horrible not only because of the loss of life and the grief of the families and the communities but also because of the shameless politics that go along with it. It’s bad enough that politicians don’t come together constructively to truly make kids safer. Now, our government weaponizes what is and isn’t a hate crime.
I encourage everyone to continue lifting the families of Katherine Koonce, Mike Hill, Cynthia Peak, Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney in prayer.
