Posted on 12/20/2024 11:58:48 AM PST by Morgana
CV NEWS FEED // A satanic so-called “holiday display” is currently in the Minnesota State Capitol, according to recent reports. The office of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who does not personally approve of it, recently told a news outlet that the display is protected by the First Amendment.
CBS News Minnesota’s WCCO News reported that the group Minnesota Satanists set up the display over the Dec. 14-15 weekend.
A spokesperson for Walz told WCCO in a statement regarding the display: “The First Amendment means that he does not police speech in the State Capitol. That’s true whether it’s a religious display, a political protest, or a Minnesotan advocating for a policy.”
On X, Alpha News posted a screenshot of a Minnesota Satanists post about the display. The group thanked its members “for helping us set up Minnesota Satanist’s first ever holiday display at the State Capitol in Saint Paul! HAIL RELIGIOUS PLURALITY!!! HAIL S*T*N!!!”
On U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber’s (R-Minnesota) personal X account, he described the display as “a disgrace.”
Almost exactly one year ago, retired military officer and former congressional candidate Michael Cassidy, a Christian, made headlines when he beheaded a Satanic “holiday display” that had been put up in Iowa’s State Capitol.
Cassidy has been vocal on his X account about the recent display in the Minnesota State Capitol, questioning the responsibility held by the state’s elected officials.
Addressing and tagging Walz in a Dec. 15 post, Cassidy asked, “Do you want the Democratic Party defined as promoters of Satanism, by tolerating their display in your state capitol? If not, what are you doing to stop it?”
Cassidy addressed similar questions via X posts to Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin, who is the Democratic National Committee Vice-Chair, and to the Minnesota House of Representatives’ Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Majority Caucus.
On Dec. 15, Cassidy posted an image, likely AI-generated, of the Founding Fathers standing agape and concerned. He captioned it: “The Founding Fathers hearing that in 250 years many government and religious leaders would think the 1st Amendment means tolerating Satanic icons in State Capitols.”
In New Hampshire last week, an unidentified person destroyed a Satanic statue set up by the Satanic Temple outside of the Statehouse, near a nativity display. As of Dec. 16, the destroyed statue has been repaired and put back up, according to the Concord Monitor.
Following Cassidy’s actions at the Iowa State Capitol last year, Iowa State Rep. Brad Sherman was among those who argued against the legality of the display. He wrote Dec. 8, “It is a tortured and twisted interpretation of law that affords Satan, who is universally understood to be the enemy of God, religious expression equal to God in an institution of government that depends upon God for continued blessings.”
Then the Ten Commandments should be OK too.
I can’t believe what has become of Minnesota. So sad.
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” John Adams
I agree. The first amendment . I think if we ignore them, they’ll go away. But if we have our stuff up, they should be able to put their stuff up. Problem is, we can’t have ours.
I’m having trouble recognizing Satanic as a religion...just the opposite...
Tim Walz is a knucklehead AND a dipshit that dances around like a queer bait
The law doesn’t forbid such a monument but neither does it require it. That satanic monument is there because Tim Walz, and by extension 51% of Minnesotans want it there.
Well I was thinking a Nativity scene the size of say about teen feet tall? But yea that too.
Well I was thinking a Nativity scene the size of say about ten feet tall? But yea that too.
sorry I meant to say Ten
Bullshit. We need to get back to an America that doesn’t put up with garbage like that. Remember “make America great again”?
Nope, walznuts and the metro area want it there.
The rest of the state (except dulluth) thinks is should be in the dumpster out back.
Disagree. Modern understanding of the first amendment is butchered. It doesn't mean at all what people nowadays thinks it means.
The US Constitution exempts the President from working on Sundays.
It also ends with "Year of our Lord."
That "Lord" isn't "Satan", it is Jesus.
Yes, our constitution specifically favors Jesus, and it says so right in the document.
This is exactly correct.
A good attorney could take that to the courts and make a case for it, even in today’s crazy world.
This SCOTUS might agree.
,,, what is pitiful is that they need this exact time of year to set up their show to compete with Christians who are valid in their intent and timing. The Christians should add some good size crucifixes to their display.
Or a vivid depiction of people screaming their lungs out in the flames of hell.
They’d have the right to put it on their private property
The state allows it in the state capital because they want it there.
Satanism is not a historically recognized holiday practice.
Since when is there a satanic holiday to be celebrated during the December holiday season?
Hanukkah (Festival of Light) has been celebrated since the second century BC, and Christmas has been celebrated since the first century AD, but a satanic holiday?
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