wsj--The First Amendment Needs Your Prayers

The First Amendment Needs Your Prayers

Jumping on anyone who publicly expressed a religious feeling after the San Bernardino massacre. Where are we heading?

By

Peggy Noonan

Updated Dec. 4, 2015 6:54 p.m. ET

What gets you about what happened in San Bernardino is the shattering sameness of it. Once and not so long ago such atrocities, whatever their cause, whether the work of schizophrenics or jihadists, constituted a signal and exceptional moment. Now they’re more like this week’s shooting. We are not becoming blasé but increasingly inured. And, of course, armed up.

You can see a coarsening in how we respond and react on social ...