Posted on 07/09/2020 9:12:00 AM PDT by MagillaX
A government meeting in Alaska opened with a prayer to Satan after a Satanic Temple member won the right to deliver the invocation, prompting about a dozen officials and attendees to walk out.
The invocation was the first given by the Satanic Temple since the Kenai Peninsula Borough — 75 miles south of Anchorage — changed a policy in November after the Alaska Superior Court said that policy violated the state’s constitution’s establishment clause. The new policy allows for anyone in the borough to offer an invocation, no matter their religion.
In her invocation, Iris Fontana, who is a member of the Satanic Temple and brought a lawsuit against the borough to change the policy, called the room to be present, “and for attendees to clear their minds,” the Peninsula Clarion newspaper reported.
“She asked listeners to embrace the impulse to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. ‘Let us demand that humans be judged for their actions,’ she said,” the Clarion reported.
“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,” Fontana said, Kenai radio station KSRM reported.
Some 40 people protested the inclusion of a Satanic Temple invocation. Some held signs reading “reject Satan and his works” and “know Jesus and his love,” as they demonstrated outside the government building, the Clarion reported.
“Assembly members Norm Blakeley and Paul Fischer and borough Mayor Charlie Pierce were among those who left the assembly chambers along with some audience members,” the Associated Press reported.
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“Satan,” must be a new code word for “Lasagna.”
Well, sure. Of course they are selective.
Unless one is completely an adherent to relative morality (which most Leftists are) in which any one thing is completely equal to any one other thing, then...being selective makes sense.
But conservatives and most Freepers aren’t relativists, are we?
We believe that there IS a difference between good and evil, and that evil does exist...don’t we?
So, on a scale we could agree the God of Abraham is good, the God of Christendom is good and we might have reservations about Allah as a God, but we wouldn’t full on embrace true evil, would we?
So, sure. Various people might debate that an invocation on behalf of a Jewish vs. a Christian, vs. other God might be appropriate or not, but normal, grounded people don’t simply accept Satan as an equal, do we?
Wouldn’t that be a Leftist thing, to insist that Satan has equal footing in morality with the Jewish or Christian God?
Whoa! Whatever demon possesses her must have a real estate title!
“I don’t understand Satanism is not a religion, it is worship of a creature and not a creator.”
Do you want the federal and state governments to establish an Agency for the Establishment of Legitimate Religions?
She clearly has a beef with God.
I am shocked that the Democrat got upset or left the room. I would have expected them to celebrate it.
Scientology was started by two Satanists. Masonic lodges for all to take Luciferian oaths
Satan demands two sacrificed Deep fried chickens...eaten with 5 loaves of white bread. Each day for 30 years
You forgot the coke!
Its the butternut squash that is taking over the garden. That stuff crawls all over the place. I have been “damning” them to hell all week.
Religious rites do not belong in government meetings.......
By their fruits......(YUM!)
Be mindful fellow patriots when you ask for prayer in public schools, this is part of what you’re asking for.
Wouldn’t that be a Leftist thing, to insist that Satan has equal footing in morality with the Jewish or Christian God?
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They would demand it and get it.
it appears Satan has been generous to her by famine-proofing her
Drawing moral equivalency between Good and evil has no place in Conservatism. You might be happier over at Liberaltarian Underground.
Masonic lodges for all to take Luciferian oaths
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Just damn! I must have missed that part over the past 40 years.
Maybe they are keeping it a secret from me.
Yes. They would, and that is disturbing. It indicates that, on a national level, our anchor is dragging.
I hope there will be no pictures of Iris Fontana. I’m going to picture her like the Iris flower, which is beautiful.
Does she have a Roscoe in her right hand?
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