The question of how political regimes recognise — or fail to recognise — minority religious communities lies at the heart of contemporary debates on religious freedom, equality, and constitutional identity. Georgia is a revealing case in point: a state in which the Georgian Orthodox Church occupies a constitutionally privileged position, and in which minority religious communities, including Protestant churches, must navigate a legal and social landscape shaped by that dominance. This paper examines the position of minority Protestants within Georgia's church-state framework, arguing that recognition is not a binary condition but a spectrum — and that Georgia's constitutional order distributes access to that spectrum in ways that produce contradictory experiences of equality and inequality. Protestant communities have achieved formal legal recognition, yet this recognition has not translated into true equality. It has coexisted with impositions and constraints: barriers to institutional access, exclusion from public funding, and symbolic marginalisation (Mikeladze et al. 2016) within a constitutional order that positions the Orthodox Church as the singular bearer of national identity (Pelkmans 2006). Drawing on historical, constitutional, and socio-political analysis, the paper traces how this layered inequality is produced — not through explicit exclusion, but through the structural privileging of one tradition. In doing so, it contributes a multi-dimensional analytical framework for reassessing the dynamics between political regimes and minority Protestant communities, and for understanding how states can produce (un)equals: communities that are legally present but substantively marginalised.