Posted on 06/21/2019 6:49:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
SOLDOTNA, Alaska - A Satanic Temple member who won the right to open a regional Alaska government meeting declared “Hail Satan” during her first invocation, prompting about a dozen officials and attendees to walk out.
Tuesday’s invocation that started the meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough also spurred a protest outside the southern Alaska borough’s administration building that drew 40 people, The Peninsula Clarion newspaper reported .
Protesters held signs saying “reject Satan and his works” and “know Jesus and his love.”
During her invocation, Satanic Temple member Iris Fontana said, “That which will not bend, must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared as demise. It is done, hail Satan,” Kenai radio station KSRM reported.
She was among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit litigated by the ACLU of Alaska against the borough after it approved a 2016 policy saying that people who wanted to give the invocations at the government body’s meetings had to belong to official organizations with an established presence on the Kenai Peninsula, which lies 75 miles south of Anchorage. Other plaintiffs who had been denied permission to give the invocations included an atheist and a Jewish woman.
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Why would they allow this?
The 1st Amendment should have been more specific with “you can choose whatever Christian church you want”.
So the difference on inclusion of islsime and satanism is what....? To me there is no difference. Inclusion is for the non-thinker.
Islime
Leftists and libertarians. That’s how. Sickening.
El diablo loving fools will regret this evil.
>...“Hail Satan” during her first invocation, prompting about a dozen officials and attendees to walk out...<
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Bravo, we still have a few courageous politicians in Alaska.
Easy to fix. Have all invocations be given and or sponsored by current office holders only. If the Office holder sponsors something like this... well let the voters decide.
If not in this life, then in eternity, yes.
right on!
I don’t agree, Satanism is the number one example of what religion is.
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