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.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
And for all the Christmas Hoopla, Easter is the crux of Christianity.
Why aint we bitching about bunnies and goofy bonnets?
Yeah, he has the gall to talk about tolerance.
What a nut-job.
We get it, the display was offensive to Christians.
When have they not been messed with?
Let him spin his tale.
Just shows his colors as a bomb thrower.
....now they are using it against us....
So?...... What’s new about that...they used alot more against Jesus Christ. Did you think we would escape it?
Nope.
I was expecting it.
Me too...and it’s going to get worse.
The fellow has one foul so far, Want to bet he whiffs?
It’s really laughable because if they don’t believe in God then who are they fighting?
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.
Very true satanism should not be tolerated period. Perhaps some need to study up on it's beliefs and rituals before being so tolerant. It's as bad if not worse than radical Islam and has about the same regard for innocent human life especially children's innocence where the end agenda is to defile/steal it from them.
Susan, just SUE the aholes that took down the nativity and use the same ruling.
They are atheists who are using Satan (who they also don’t believe in) to antagonize Christians to the point that they will give up on displays of religion on public property. It seems be working.
Huh? The people who put up the nativity scene don’t have a right to take it down?
The God that was worshiped by a majority throughout much of this countries history once enacted a scorched earth policy against child sacrificing, evil idolators. Not one man, nor woman, nor animal were spared. I can’t believe there were many children when many were sacrificed to evil by hideous vile evil “men” who were slain with merciless efficiency.
Oh, wait.....I just thought of something. Abortion? Uhg.....Church of Satan? Uh oh, my mind is starting to draw parallels.
Oh, I just realized that in the end times that much of the Earth will be as evil as the things wiped out of existence at the command of God early in the Bible.
Hold onto your butts.
Satanism is not to be tolerated.
Religion. God is God. Religion is what people say about God. You don't have to believe in God to hate religion.
Of course they do. Are you ready to give up?
Because they did.
But I’m not.
Why would the Church take down the nativity?
The State forced it.
The day they allowed the offensive display to be erected.
Clearly a double standard.
but Christmas is a Christian holiday... it should be respected... if they want to share a satanic display, then let them do it during another time... not during Christmas...
They are not Satanist.
They are idiot punks.
And you still don’t get it.
Evil does exist, you can’t wish it away.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.