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Earlier this year, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen wrote an essay for the Players' Tribune titled "Left Out." In the article, McCutchen describes growing up in Fort Meade, Florida – a small town where most families scraped to get by – and how that affected his ability to play sports.
Imagine that graffiti were found painted on a mosque or Islamic community center. Imagine that the graffiti contained various biblical references and other phrases indicating that the vandals were evangelical Protestant Christians. Imagine that the Obama administration's Department of Justice investigated, prosecuted, and obtained a guilty plea from the perpetrators.
What do you suppose the Justice Department's press release would say about the incident and about the vandals' motives? Would it neglect to mention that the vandals were Christians? Would it neglect to speculate about a possible religious motivation for their actions?