Compare And Contrast
By Mitch Berg
When “Satanists” – actually a sophomoric cheetoh-dusty club of militant atheists – erected a “Satanic” holiday display in the Capitol rotunda, Christians angrily dissented, and occasionally fulminated – but let the “Satanists” enjoy their free speech and one of their few trips outside their parents’ basements.
When an Easter display got excluded from the Capitol, Christians – including former Senator Dan Hall – took it outdoors:
You didn’t need to be a playwrite to foreshadow this one:
No cigar for guessing this one:
Norby allegedly has an arrest record involving “Antifa-Like” activities in 2020.
Of course, the real precedent is that Minnesota leftists feel entitled to destroy speech they disagree with.
And this being John Choi’s Ramsey County, I’m going to go out on a short, sturdy limb and predict Norby gets “sentenced” to teaching elementary school kids about the separation of church and state, using precedent.
April 2nd, 2025 at 9:06 am
Haven’t we been lectured that violence is an appropriate response to speech we don’t like? And that we should punch back twice as hard?
Be a shame if Mr Norby were to find the shoe on the other foot, so to speak.
April 2nd, 2025 at 11:21 am
Regarding the “Satanists”–probably really more “agnostics who like to tweak fundagelical Christians like myself”–my thought is that if they want to put out a statue that looks like a cheap knockoff of the cover of a science fiction book and make themselves look like science fiction fans who have “failed to launch” and still live in their parents’ basements, LET THEM.
Regarding the “10 Commandments” displays, the “fundagelical” in me is not particularly enamored with them. Start with the fact that Christians are no longer under the law of Moses, and continue with the fact that there are 370,000 or so churches/congregations in the country that can post the Decalogue if they so choose, and complete with the fact that there are, as last I knew, north of twenty million homes and apartments inhabited by fundagelical Christians who can also post the Ten Commandments, and I really don’t see the need to pick a fight over the question of whether they ought to be posted on public property.
Let the world see that we try to follow them instead of shoving a display down their throats, and far more good will be done.
April 3rd, 2025 at 7:50 am
Funny how State troopers did nothing when the statue of Columbus was vandalized. And to Bike, free speech is free speech. No exceptions.
April 4th, 2025 at 9:41 am
Agreed, no exceptions on free speech. I was thinking mostly of the practicalities of how “my tribe’s” free speech plays to the rest of the country, and how it works with our own stated principles.