Surprise! MN Shooter Vance Boelter's Transphobic Missionary Sermon Video!
Suspected MN political assassin delivered rant to Congolese Evangelical congregation
Vance Boelter, the alleged assassin of Minnesota lawmakers, previously had been recorded delivering a transphobic sermon to a Francophone congregation with aide of a translator. Said to have been recorded in DR Congo, the suspected killer of Rep. Melissa Hortman alongside her husband Mark as well as alleged attempted murderer of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette made obvious his animus towards the queer community in the video.
The alleged political assassin perpetrated his actions on June 14, 2025 during the early morning hours, sporting a latex Halloween mask and black tactical costuming approximating the appearance of a militarized police officer.
While seemingly bizarre, it is not surprising to see this type of evangelism being promoted on the African continent. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, Evangelical/Pentecostal missionaries with explicitly sexist/patriarchal/homophobic theologies and deep-pocketed American donors have gained a significant share of African believers, oftentimes owing to parallel food and medical ministries being operated out of the mission. When the audience is promised a hot meal in a town struck otherwise by near-famine conditions, all manner of religious mountebanks can emerge. Who can begrudge a family for needing not only moral but actual nutritional sustenance? Boelter seems to have been a frequent visitor to the continent and was a volunteer with Global Impact Center Ministries, led by Rev. E. Mcnay Nkashama.
Here is an account offered by another missionary describing one of their trips to Congo in 2015:
From the very start when knowing that I was going to join Pastor Mcnay to the mission fields of Congo and Kenya an excitement stirred within my very being. My husband Pastor Eugene Davis said, “Honey, you have to go, it’s so important and we will do everything possible to send you.” So the journey began. All that was needed to travel came in and enable me to go. As God directs, He is able to provide. This mission story is all about the great and might work that God did in the Congo and Kenya. It is also a personal story about the changes that God did in my heart as a missionary.
On July 1, 2015 a team of Christians three from Global Impact Center, and eight from other ministry partners, left Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. We arrived in Kinshasa, DRC the next day. A good night rest and breakfast we got ready to meet the Vise President of the Democratic Republic of Congo at the Parliament Building. After a short meeting there we met with the team from the Congo, Assemblies of God Church and local leaders. Later that evening we had dinner with the former Governor of Kananga and its current congressman and his family at his home…
The leaders of the lead ministries met with the Governor of the district. We were warmly welcomed and asked his excellence to join the evening crusades if possible. The Governor showed us such favor. He made a few phone calls and secured the stage that is used for Government Officials when giving speeches and State addresses. In addition we were given police security for the meetings and our blessings to conduct the crusades. In Matthew 10: 18 it says, “You will be brought before governors and kings…”… The GIC team stayed in Kinshasa and met with business leaders, partners, and more government officials. More meetings were held in the local churches in Kinshasa with wonderful receptions every where. [sic]
It is hard to ignore the obvious connotations of the Prosperity Gospel, which sacralizes the business deal in a manner akin to the marriage covenant. The fantasia of conservative Republicans bringing peace to the Congo more than sixty years after the CIA murdered Patrice Lumumba at the behest of Republican President Eisenhower is, putting it politely, a stretch. Yet beneath the Temple Veil (not to mention the earth’s crust) are high-value rare earth minerals (cobalt, tantalum, niobium, and coltan) and untapped potential rare earth elements, essential components for the manufacture of most electronic, computing, and renewable energy materials that the collective species will find itself relying upon more and more in the coming decades.
As it stands, Boelter was only given four charges of either murder or attempted murder; impersonating a police officer is likewise a crime and it is unclear if this shall constitute any later criminal prosecution. If the court were to pursue such charges, it would be a useful exercise of state power to curtail and effectively regulate militia groups, such as the Oath Keepers, who valorize their pledge to uphold and protect the Constitution without acknowledging the Constitutional right of the state to “well-regulate” their militia activities.
It is impossible to ignore the disturbing animus that supposedly underwrites the motivation. Besides transphobia, there is now reason to believe that opposition towards abortion healthcare access and procurement of the procedure is a major motivation for the suspect. In each case, transphobic and antichoice politics, it is underwritten by a desire to control both cis and non-cis female bodies in service of the ideological and social comforts of cis-/hetero-patriarchal systems.
The fact that the perpetrator lives in the state led by Gov. Tim Walz, last year’s Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, yields further elements for consideration. How did the suspect perceive and describe his opinions on seeing a white man playing a subordinate role to a Black woman in a contest like our Presidential election campaign system? Were his opinions about Gov. Walz particularly charged with racial animosity owing to the political association with former Vice President Kamala Harris? Did he ever use the grotesque and racist vocabulary/grammar of the alt-right, predicated upon inherently perverse anti-social views, to describe the Governor?
This story will develop further…