“How is this not an anti-Christian hate-crime?”
It is despicable behavior, and if he trespassed, vandalized or stole anything in creating his “artworks” then of course he should be dealt with appropriately.
Having said that I refuse to acknowledge the Leftist/Stalinist concept of a “hate-crime”. If something’s a crime it’s a crime, hate or even love have no bearing on it.
We have already seen how allowing the Leftists to demean our system of justice with the “hate-crime” concept has led inexorably to the notion of “hate-speech”. This has created a potential weapon which the Left is even now planning to use against talk-radio and websites like the one where we are having this conversation.
It is more gobbledygook, designed to muddle minds. I didn't think anyone would take the concept of an "anti-Christian hate-crime" seriously, simply because so many of the moral expectations of Christianity are at odds with the behaviours of the folks who hide behind such Orwellian gibberish as "hate-crime", just to make selected protected classes more protected. (Some animals will make sure they are more 'equal' than others, it seems.)
While I detest the destruction of a formerly precise language and lament my small part therein, I confess I am at the end of a 13 hour workday, and not expressing myself as precisely as I should.
Still, in the parlance of the anti-semantics, were Christians not considered the 'other' from whom the 'protected' should allegedly be protected, Christians would enjoy those same protections, and the "anti-Christian hate-crime" would be a possibility, at least within the lexiconography of the Liberals.