{"id":2418829,"date":"2025-04-02T08:25:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-dont-have-to-tolerate-everything\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:28:51","slug":"you-dont-have-to-tolerate-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-dont-have-to-tolerate-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don\u2019t Have To Tolerate Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-dont-have-to-tolerate-everything%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2418829&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Last week in Topeka, Kansas, a conflict arose between a group of Satanists trying to hold a &#8220;Black Mass&#8221; outside the state capitol and thousands of Catholic protesters opposing them. The Black Mass is a Satanic ritual that inverts the Catholic Mass, and it typically involves the desecration of a consecrated Eucharistic host, which is significant to both catholics and Satanists. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann attempted to legally prevent the Black mass by recovering the consecrated host claimed by the Satanists, but the court dismissed the case when they denied possession.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this legal setback, Catholic protesters gathered in large numbers to oppose the Satanic ritual, with many supporting them through prayer. The situation escalated when a Catholic named Randy Blasi intervened and consumed a consecrated host that the satanists attempted to desecrate. This act of defiance led to clashes,resulting in the arrest of several individuals,including the Satanic leader Michael Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses the implications of free speech and the First Amendment, arguing that the acceptance of events like the Black Mass is a departure from historical legal interpretations of freedom of religion in America. The author contends that the notion of tolerating such sacrilege contradicts the principles held by the nation&#8217;s Founding Fathers, advocating for peaceful protest and defense of religious beliefs as alternatives to passivity in the face of blasphemy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last 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 &ldquo;Black Mass&rdquo; outside the Kansas State Capitol and was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catholicvote.org\/thousands-of-christians-gather-to-protest-satanic-ritual-kansas-capital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">met by thousands of Catholic protesters<\/a>&nbsp;who had no intention of standing by and allowing the devilry to proceed in peace.<\/p>\n<p>These Catholics had exactly the right idea: We don&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jews-have-insatiable-appetite-for-war-and-killing-googles-head-of-diversity-in-2007\/\" title=\"Jews Have \u2018Insatiable Appetite For War And Killing\u2019: Google\u2019s Head Of Diversity In 2007\">mid-twentieth century<\/a>, 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 &mdash; or anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>First, it&rsquo;s important to understand that a Black Mass is a Satanic ceremony based directly on the Catholic Mass, mocking and inverting it for demonic purposes. Black Masses have been around for centuries, and used to be done in secret because the Catholic Church and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">secular authorities alike<\/a> would not tolerate them. To perform one, Satanists must steal a consecrated Eucharistic host, which they then desecrate in an act of hatred toward God. (This is one reason Catholic churches keep the consecrated host in a locked tabernacle, and Catholic priests do not allow parishioners to take the host with them back to their seats during Holy Communion.)<\/p>\n<p>In this, Catholics share at least one belief in common with Satanists: they both believe the bread and wine used in Holy Communion, once consecrated, are the actual body and blood of Christ. That&rsquo;s why Satanists will only use a host consecrated by a Catholic priest for a Black Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing this, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan.,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catholicreview.org\/kansas-satanists-forced-to-admit-under-oath-they-dont-possess-eucharist-for-black-mass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed a petition<\/a>&nbsp;in the civil division of the District Court of Leavenworth County, Kansas, to recover the consecrated host the Satanists claimed to have secured. (The Satanic Grotto swore in court that it didn&rsquo;t have a consecrated host, and the judge dismissed the case.)<\/p>\n<p>Having failed to stop the Black Mass in court, the Catholic faithful didn&rsquo;t just throw their hands up and allow the devil-worshippers to do as they pleased. When the Satanic Grotto showed up by the dozens to perform their sacrilege last Friday, they were met by vastly larger numbers of peaceful Catholic protesters, who were supported in prayer by thousands of fellow Catholics at four different parishes in Topeka for reparation Masses that same day.<\/p>\n<p>The Satanists,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catholicvote.org\/outside-of-the-fence-the-satanic-ritual-protest-from-a-students-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jeering at the crowds of singing and praying Catholics<\/a>, proceeded with their Black Mass on the steps of the Kansas Capitol. When the moment of desecration came and the founder and leader of the Satanic Grotto, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-smith-slammed-for-mocking-bald-man-in-old-footage\/\" title=\"Will Smith Slammed for Mocking Bald Man in Old Footage\">bald man<\/a> with face tattoos named Michael Stewart, threw a consecrated host to the ground apparently to stomp on it, a Catholic man named Randy Blasi rushed forward, dove on the host and immediately consumed it. The Satanists struck Blasi on the head and neck, but it was too late, their sacrilege had been thwarted.<\/p>\n<p>But the Satan-worshippers weren&rsquo;t ready to give up, and went inside the capitol hoping to complete their ceremony. A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CatholicVote\/status\/1905673783416934437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">widely-circulated video clip<\/a>&nbsp;shows Stewart holding up a bag containing what appeared to be another consecrated host. But before he could finish his blasphemous incantations, a young man named Marcus Schroeder grabbed the bag and would not let go. Stewart punched Schroeder in the face twice, knocking him down. Police immediately tackled Stewart and arrested him, hauling him off in handcuffs as he shouted &ldquo;hail Satan!&rdquo; He was later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/satanic-leader-arrested-black-mass-scuffle-kansas-statehouse-despicable-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged with disorderly conduct and illegal assembly<\/a>, along with at least two of his followers. (Marcus was also charged with disorderly conduct.)<\/p>\n<p>Before and after the events at the capitol, Stewart and his fellow Satanists argued that they were simply exercising their constitutional rights under the First Amendment. They&rsquo;re technically right, but only because the Supreme Court in the 1950s abandoned First Amendment jurisprudence upholding the constitutionality of laws against blasphemy and sacrilege, which had been on the books in every state since our nation&rsquo;s founding.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the case that changed everything had to do with the state of New York&rsquo;s decision to ban an anti-Catholic film by Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini called &ldquo;The Miracle&rdquo; on grounds that it was &ldquo;sacrilegious.&rdquo; In 1952 the Supreme Court ruled in&nbsp;<em>Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson<\/em>&nbsp;that the provisions of New York law that allowed for the banning of the film were a &ldquo;restraint on free speech,&rdquo; and violated the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>That landmark decision overturned a unanimous 1915 Supreme Court ruling that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gab-ceo-i-had-very-close-relationships-with-facebook-and-twitteri-got-to-see-the-evils-of-their-business-model-for-many-yearswhat-were-s\/\" title=\"GAB CEO: \u201cI had very close relationships with ...book and Twitter\u2026\u201dI got to see the evils of their business model for many years\u201d\u2026\u201dWhat we\u2019re seeing in ... right now is the rise of Communism\u201d[VIDEO]\">free speech protections<\/a> of the First Amendment do not extend to films because &ldquo;they may be used for evil,&rdquo; and that censorship of films is not &ldquo;beyond the power of government.&rdquo; The exhibition of films, the court said in its 9-0 ruling, was not to be regarded &ldquo;as part of the press of the country, or as organs of public opinion.&rdquo; Just as government can regulate the theater or circus through licensure, the court reasoned, so too can it regulate the showing of films.<\/p>\n<p>We have now come so far from that previous understanding of the First Amendment, which held firm from its ratification in 1791 until the middle of the last century, that it&rsquo;s hard to imagine we ever had free speech in this country prior to 1952. But we did. What we&nbsp;<em>didn&rsquo;t<\/em>&nbsp;have was a public square so corrupted and devoid of any objective moral standards that a Satanic Black Mass could be considered a valid expression of free speech or free exercise of religion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&rsquo;re asked simply to tolerate this kind of sacrilege in public&mdash;something not a single one of our Founding Fathers would have done. The idea that any of them or any of their successors for a century or more would have countenanced a Black Mass, or a public Satanic ritual of any kind, on the grounds that it was protected speech or a valid exercise of religion, is frankly ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Like them, we don&rsquo;t have to tolerate it. As these heroic Catholics showed last week, you can press your case in court. Failing that, you can press your case in the form of peaceful and orderly protest. And if it comes to it, you can defy the sacrilege and blasphemies of the Satanists by enduring their blows to preserve what is sacred, and in doing so give an example to the world of the selflessness and piety that true religion inspires.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&amp;qid=1695306441&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Topeka, Kansas, Catholics protested a Satanic Black Mass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2418830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Catholic-protest.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32236,8941,35390,38675,41143],"class_list":["post-2418829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-assertiveness","tag-boundaries","tag-mental-health","tag-personal-growth","tag-self-care"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Catholic-protest.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418833,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418829\/revisions\/2418833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}