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Satanic Display at Florida Capitol Damaged
ABC News ^ | December 23,2014 | BRENDAN FARRINGTON

Posted on 12/23/2014 10:50:35 PM PST by balch3

Susan Hemeryck, 54, tried removing the display Tuesday, and when the Capitol Police told her she couldn't, she began ripping it apart. She was arrested and charged with criminal mischief. The display had been erected as a satire by an atheist group to counter a nativity scene, which was taken down the day the Satanic Temple installed theirs.

"It's just wrong, when you remove baby Jesus two days before Christmas and put Satan in his place ? that just can't happen. I couldn't allow it to happen," said Hemeryck, who said she was wearing a shirt that said "Catholic Warrior" when she arrived at the Capitol. "I was there at the right time and the right moment and I needed to take a stand against Satan."

Atheist groups last year began taking advantage of the Capitol's free speech zone after a Christian group installed a manger scene showing the birth of Jesus. The display last year included a Festivus pole in tribute to a holiday created on "Seinfeld" that satirizes the commercialism of Christmas and a display by the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, which mocks beliefs that a god created the universe and argues instead that the universe was created by a plate of pasta and meatballs.

The Satanic Temple display was rejected as "grossly offensive" last year, but this year ? following threats of legal action from the Americans United for Separation of Church and State ? the state Department of Management Services gave its approval.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: display; florida; satanic
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To: mylife

LOL


21 posted on 12/23/2014 11:32:04 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: mylife

The damaged satanic display will only draw attention to the intolerance of the atheists as they insisted in ruining the Christmas season for the people of Florida.


22 posted on 12/23/2014 11:32:53 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Veggie Todd

God blessed us with laughter.


23 posted on 12/23/2014 11:33:49 PM PST by mylife
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To: Oliviaforever

Not the way it is being spun.

Do I think they are jerks?
Yes I do.
I see jerks all the time but I don’t rip up their stuff.


24 posted on 12/23/2014 11:35:28 PM PST by mylife
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To: mylife
God blessed us with laughter.

You are so right. I've made a donation in your name to The Human Fund.

25 posted on 12/23/2014 11:36:04 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Oliviaforever

Are they satanist or atheists?
I think they are just no count punks.

No count.


26 posted on 12/23/2014 11:36:43 PM PST by mylife
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To: Veggie Todd

Bless you brother Todd


27 posted on 12/23/2014 11:37:15 PM PST by mylife
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To: CatOwner
More balls than 99.999% of the FReepers who bloviate about the left.

The thing of it is that part of what we are comprises respect for the law and the property of others. Well, at least this person did it the right way; out in the open and ready to accept the consequences, which is the hallmark of civil disobedience.

28 posted on 12/23/2014 11:39:58 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: balch3

So much for, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.


29 posted on 12/23/2014 11:44:41 PM PST by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: Veggie Todd

“As I reigned down blows on Bill Mahrs head, I saw there must be a better way...”


30 posted on 12/23/2014 11:45:16 PM PST by mylife
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To: CatOwner

How would one contact this woman? If someone wanted to?


31 posted on 12/23/2014 11:46:07 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: MHGinTN

Bravo!


32 posted on 12/23/2014 11:46:41 PM PST by caww
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To: christx30

Problem is you allow one religion in, you gotta let them all in.

No you don’t.


33 posted on 12/23/2014 11:48:14 PM PST by caww
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To: All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPG3zSgm_Qo


34 posted on 12/23/2014 11:52:02 PM PST by mylife
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To: caww

Happy Christmas to you, m’Lady.


35 posted on 12/23/2014 11:56:19 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: mountainbunny

Sorry, but this does not apply. Open worship of Satan.

The church took the nativity scene down.

There is a difference between disagreeing with someone over small issues and religions that are generally peaceful and compassionate, and the worship of Satan. Which all of those said religions have a name for. The embodiment of hate, evil and the cause of everything wrong with the world.

What this woman did was perhaps hasty. But not wrong by any means. There IS in fact a difference between “tolerance”, and the open worship of evil.


36 posted on 12/23/2014 11:57:44 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Veggie Todd

George thanks you ...


37 posted on 12/23/2014 11:58:24 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: Oliviaforever

How does one ruin Christmas?
I am unemployed, alone and 1500 miles from home.

Christmas will be just fine.


38 posted on 12/24/2014 12:00:50 AM PST by mylife
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To: mountainbunny

You know what? I’d like to add. Why don’t you go bask in the glow of Satan’s statue in a state Capitol(built on the blood and tears of men opposed to what Satan represents), and think of how great it is Satan get’s a statue too!

Respectfully and sincerely like my Dad used to say.

Go pound sand. For you would be more productive.


39 posted on 12/24/2014 12:01:08 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: MHGinTN
You just put a smile on my face...Merry Christmas to you too MHGinTN!

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth"....John 1:14


40 posted on 12/24/2014 12:04:17 AM PST by caww
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