[ That’s indeed the goal.
And, the regulations and penalties will be set up such that they can be arbitrarily enforced or not, and they will only be enforced on that group which you named.
The point is to criminalize our beliefs. ]
The goal is also to setup an environment where “Selective Enforcement” is the rule of the day. That way political enemies can be punished under the “rule of law” and those that are political allies can get away with breaking their many rules as the enforcement branch will simply “look the other way and cough”.
Indeed, there will be politically based punishment,
but their driving motivation is to criminalize Christian beliefs through an all-powerful State, ie, they’re building the kingdom of the anti-Christ.