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Ottumwa City Council Meeting opens with 'Hail Satan' Invocation [Iowa]
KCCI Des Moines ^ | 10/8/26

Posted on 10/08/2026 10:10:04 AM PDT by marshmallow

OTTUMWA, Iowa —A prayer at the beginning of an Ottumwa City Council meeting is drawing backlash.

Former council member Matthew Dalbey delivered the invocation Tuesday, which ended with "hail Satan."

That caused an uproar. The Ottumwa Courier reports local pastor Rick Bick took the mic, even though public comment is reserved for the end of city council meetings. He said it was a "curse on the city."

(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dhimmidemocrats; iowa; matthewdalbey; ottumwa; satanictemple

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1 posted on 10/08/2026 10:10:04 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Abhorrent

I rebuke this.


2 posted on 10/08/2026 10:11:46 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: marshmallow

Radar O’Rielly is deeply saddened.


3 posted on 10/08/2026 10:12:00 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: marshmallow

attention whore


4 posted on 10/08/2026 10:18:29 AM PDT by TTFX
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"attention whore"

I would add, low IQ ignoramus.

5 posted on 10/08/2026 10:21:19 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: marshmallow

Matthew Dalbey is they satanist’s name


6 posted on 10/08/2026 10:22:18 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: marshmallow

When you know you spent all of your life usefulness.


7 posted on 10/08/2026 10:23:54 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: marshmallow

Seems accurate to me. We kill babies up to six weeks, marry homosexuals, favor homosexuals in adoption, teach transgenderism in schools. Imprison men 17 years for burning LGBT flags, while the US flag is burned routinely with no repercussions.


8 posted on 10/08/2026 10:28:20 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: NonValueAdded

“Radar O’Rielly is deeply saddened.”

As are most current and former Iowans. Iowa is among the most kind and decent states in our nation, however they have their fair share of nose-ring wearing, blue hair having, anti-social, anti-civilization, never been to church, hate my family and life freak shows!

Whoever this clown is, he lives in small-ish town America, and were I him, I would be very careful showing my face.


9 posted on 10/08/2026 10:28:53 AM PDT by Bshaw (There is a nefarious deceit upon us!)
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To: Bshaw

Is there a college in Ottumwa?


10 posted on 10/08/2026 10:29:22 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: combat_boots

The voters in Ottumwa should pay a little more attention to their candidates going forward.

Satan is real and his power is real even if the wicked like this ‘former’ council person believes he is only playing with a Ouija board game to frighten the locals.

This evil spirit presents itself as secular and is only fighting “Christian privilege” in government. So any and all attention is what it is seeking for itself. The MSM is always happy to provide it a billboard.


11 posted on 10/08/2026 10:33:37 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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"Earlier this year, the city council approved a policy allowing members of the public to open meetings with an invocation of their choice....One council member voted against the policy, saying it could lead to exactly this situation."
12 posted on 10/08/2026 10:34:00 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: captmar-vell

The voters in Ottumwa should pay a little more attention to their candidates going forward.


You mean the 2% of people who even bother to vote?


13 posted on 10/08/2026 10:34:15 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: marshmallow

Ottumwa claimed for Satan. New York City claimed for Allah. So it goes.


14 posted on 10/08/2026 10:37:42 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Douse him with Grape Nehi.


15 posted on 10/08/2026 10:38:21 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: marshmallow

Matt is a crazy bastard.


16 posted on 10/08/2026 10:40:31 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: marshmallow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple

The Satanic Temple (TST) is a non-theistic new religious movement,[1]


so then who was he praying to?


17 posted on 10/08/2026 10:52:07 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: dfwgator

Exactly, they stay home or else they may have to vote for someone who says mean things on X, (oh . why cant he be more like George Bush or Mitt Romney and be nice?)

So they’ll show him, and stay home and let the Godless reprobate NWO Davos Globalists, Islamicists and DSA Jacobins all have a turn working together at implementing their agenda-2030 Spirit of anti-Christ across the last holdout nation on Earth.


18 posted on 10/08/2026 10:52:34 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: marshmallow

must be muslims


19 posted on 10/08/2026 11:04:41 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Bshaw

It’s more proof of the sacrilegious world we find ourselves in where evil anti-Christ displays are all the rage. There was only one who had the presence of soul to condemn the blasphemy - all the rest went along with the Satanic ‘invocation.’


20 posted on 10/08/2026 11:21:14 AM PDT by iontheball
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