Posted on 06/11/2025 10:52:16 PM PDT by Morgana
The Satanic Temple (TST) in Iowa filed a complaint June 10 with the Iowa Office of Civil Rights, claiming that it is a religious group and that state officials discriminated against it by denying it permission to host a satanic event in the Iowa Capitol.
TST applied to hold a winter celebration in the Capitol in December 2024 in an attempt to educate Iowans about satanism and its beliefs, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, which filed the complaint on behalf of TST.
Mortimer Adramelech, a satanic minister of TST Iowa, claimed that he and his group are simply “seeking to exercise our right to freedom of religion.” The event would have included “satanic holiday carols,” DIY satanic ornaments, a Krampus costume contest, and a ritual.
State officials denied the application, stating that events involving violence, gore, or sexual themes are not permissible. TST claims that the event would not have included such content and would have remained family-friendly.
This is not TST’s first incident at the Iowa Capitol. In December 2023, the group placed a satanic display in the rotunda of the building, prompting Christian Navy veteran Michael Cassidy to destroy the figure, CatholicVote previously reported.
“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged. My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted,” Cassidy said at the time. “The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment.”
In response to Cassidy’s actions, CatholicVote Vice President Josh Mercer explained that tearing down the statue was not a violation of TST’s First Amendment rights.
“The state of Iowa has every right to exercise its own government speech on its government property,” Mercer stated in 2023. “You do not have a First Amendment right to have every viewpoint represented.”
I for one am fed up with these unholy abominations calling themselves satanists.
For the most part, members of this group aren’t really Satanists, they’re atheists who just want to stick it in the face of Christians, stomp on Christian moral values, and generally mock the church. But in doing so they’re serving Satan quite well.
I fail to see the difference.
Certainly another cultural symptom of ‘Evicting God From Our Public Life.’
Satanists, Trans-Stupidity, Sodomite Inclusion and overall Self-Worship : see the fruit of our decline.
And worse will come...
What happened to *separation of church and state* the left so likes to screech when it’s Christians involved?
Church of satan is not an established religion.
That is precisely what the First Amendment protects and it was clear as a bell in 1791. That meant Episcopalian, Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Anglican, Lutheran. The fact that people are allowed to make up “religions” like Flying Spaghetti Monster is proof of state hostility on this topic. Groups of people cannot fabricate that they are a government or some other form of distinction.
We were inched there before. Now it's full steam ahead.
Thanks obama and *fundamentally transforming America*. We liked it just as it weas. And nobody asked you to mess with it.
Genesis 6:5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:11-12 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Revelation 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
Yes, I tend to think the Nephilim are already here.
Why did Trump ever hand non-profit status to these creeps in his first term? And can he reverse it?
Exactly, that only applies to Christians.
“I for one am fed up with these unholy abominations calling themselves satanists.”
Not only you, Lucifer himself gave them a piece of his mind. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSSI6j7ZC6Q
Thanks to genetic research and gain of function, we’re creating them now.
Hell yeah,
Discriminate against, “satanists”?
Of hell yeah.
they should sacrifice themselves to their god for guidance...
That is not a religion. Neither is Islam.
I believe it.
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Satan pulls a page from ‘Rules for Radicals; showing you’re never too old to learn a new trick.
Cool. Wake me up when they sacrifice the goat 🐐. /s
This is correct. The founders used the term "religion" to mean what we call "denomination." Liberals and troublemakers have been deliberately misinterpreting it since at least the 1940s.
It was never envisioned to include Islam, Buddist, Shinto, or any other Pagan religion.
The US Constitution concludes with "Year of our Lord".
It exempts the President from working on Sundays.
It is deliberately biased towards the Christian religion, and it was never intended to regard any other religion seriously.
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