Four LGBTQ activists showed up at the home of Australian pastor Andrew Sedra on Thursday night. Two of them wore hoods. They cut the electricity to his house, attempted to break in, and threatened to kill his family — including his newborn son.

His address had been leaked online.

Sedra, a Pentecostal pastor associated with the Echo Church movement, posted about the attack: "On Thursday night, 4 left-wing activists including 2 hooded individuals came to our home after our address was leaked publicly online," Sedra wrote. "They threatened to kill us and destroy us, they cut out the electricity from our home and attempted to break in."

According to Sedra, the attackers screamed, "I will fing kill you," "I will take you motherfers down," and "I know where you live and I'll be at your doorstep every night." His wife Noleen and their newborn son were inside the home. His brothers Martin and John Sedra were also present during the incident.

The Sedra family has a Coptic background. They came from Egypt — a country where Christians face actual, documented persecution for their faith. They moved to Australia to get awake from religious persecution. They thought moving to Australia meant they wouldn't have to worry about mobs showing up at their door threatening their lives.

Now consider what we're actually looking at here. This wasn't a protest. This wasn't a sign-waving demonstration outside a church. Four people went to a Christian pastor's private residence after his home address was deliberately published online to harm him. They cut his power. They tried to force entry. They made explicit death threats against him, his wife, and his infant child.

In any other context, we'd call that a coordinated home invasion attempt. We'd call the people who leaked the address accomplices. We'd call the death threats what they are under virtually every criminal statute in the Western world — felonies.

But when the target is a Christian pastor and the attackers are ideologically motivated, the institutional response gets a lot quieter. No wall-to-wall media coverage. No politicians rushing to condemn. No hashtags about protecting vulnerable families from political violence.

The progressive movement has spent years insisting that words are violence. Misgendering is violence. Disagreement is violence. Silence is violence. But cutting power to a home with a newborn inside, trying to break down a door, and screaming death threats at a family? That apparently requires a more nuanced conversation.