{"id":89468,"date":"2025-04-02T07:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89468"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:55:50","slug":"compare-and-contrast-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89468","title":{"rendered":"Compare And Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When &#8220;Satanists&#8221; &#8211; actually a sophomoric cheetoh-dusty club of militant atheists &#8211; erected a &#8220;Satanic&#8221; holiday display in the Capitol rotunda, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88900\">Christians angrily dissented<\/a>, and occasionally fulminated &#8211; but let the &#8220;Satanists&#8221; enjoy their free speech and one of their few trips outside their parents&#8217; basements.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>When an Easter display got excluded from the Capitol, Christians &#8211; including former Senator Dan Hall &#8211; took it outdoors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/lizcollin\/status\/1904568056061255756\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>You didn&#8217;t need to be a playwrite to foreshadow this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottEl79819027\/status\/1904624842084692377\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>No cigar for guessing this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/lizcollin\/status\/1906859219388690833\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Norby allegedly has an arrest record involving &#8220;Antifa-Like&#8221; activities in 2020.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the real precedent is that Minnesota leftists feel entitled to destroy speech they disagree with.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this being John Choi&#8217;s Ramsey County, I&#8217;m going to go out on a short, sturdy limb and predict Norby gets &#8220;sentenced&#8221; to teaching elementary school kids about the separation of church and state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76111\">using precedent<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When &#8220;Satanists&#8221; &#8211; actually a sophomoric cheetoh-dusty club of militant atheists &#8211; erected a &#8220;Satanic&#8221; holiday display in the Capitol rotunda, Christians angrily dissented, and occasionally fulminated &#8211; but let the &#8220;Satanists&#8221; enjoy their free speech and one of their few trips outside their parents&#8217; basements.\u00a0 When an Easter display got excluded from the Capitol, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89469,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89468\/revisions\/89469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}