You’re right, it’s a double standard. That’s the issue here.
You, (and a few others) actually took the time to read my post and my thoughts, and what I was trying to convey. It was not an issue of being upset over those guys doing a Shinto thing in the streets of Japan, it was my objection that if you tried to do some parallel Christian activity back in the USA, people (libs, ACLU types) would blow a gasket.
That is how much we have lost freedom of expression within our own borders!.