John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.

You can just say, ‘Not today, Satan,’ and take action. Freedom of speech shouldn’t cover every sacrilege imaginable.

Author John Daniel Davidson profileLast week in Topeka, Kansas, the followers of Jesus Christ clashed with the slaves of Satan, and Christ won. A relatively obscure group called the Satanic Grotto tried to stage a “Black Mass” outside the Kansas State Capitol and was met by thousands of Catholic protesters who had no intention of standing by and allowing the devilry to proceed in peace.

These Catholics had exactly the right idea: We don’t have to tolerate every insult and sacrilege against the Christian faith out of a misguided notion of toleration or a misunderstanding of religious liberty. Contrary to how the U.S. Supreme Court began to re-interpret the First Amendment in the mid-twentieth century, freedom of religion in America should never have been construed so broadly as to allow Satanists to perform a Black Mass on the steps of a state capitol — or anywhere else….

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