Arizona city bars Satanic Temple prayer at council meeting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Arizona city bars Satanic Temple prayer at council meeting
By Associated Press

May 23 at 9:30 PM

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Officials say Scottsdale will bar the Satanic Temple from leading a scheduled prayer at a City Council meeting in July.

City spokesman Kelly Corsette says Scottsdale informed the Satanic Temple’s Arizona chapter that only representatives from institutions that have a substantial connection to the Scottsdale community will be allowed to give the invocation.

Scottsdale now is making other arrangements for the July 6 invocation.

Satanic Temple spokesman Stu de Haan says the city has twice approved plans for the invocation — first for April 5 and then for July 6 when the group had to reschedule for logistical reasons.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/arizona-city-bars-satanic-temple-prayer-at-council-meeting/2016/05/23/130c8d6e-214f-11e6-b944-52f7b1793dae_story.html

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Kelly Corsette, city spokesman



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[AntiBank]

1. satanic, christian, jewish, muslim, etc etc, its all fairy tale believing bollocks

No idea why ANY prayer or religious shit is even allowed at a government event.

[DetlefK]

3. Actually, modern Satanism is an atheist/humanist movement. Not a religion.

They only call themselves "Satanists" to piss off the Christians.



If you give the Bible a close reading, you will be hard-pressed to find arguments WHY Satan and Lucifer are supposed to be the bad guys. Satan is the cynical and skeptic nay-sayer to the infallible decisions of God. And Lucifer is the rebel against God's inherent right to rule the universe.

[yeoman6987]

10. Get it out of government activities, events, meetings and buildings

If they want to gather, do it off government property.

[JackRiddler]

13. Yes but!

If there are invocations at the City Council at all, then the Satanists should get to do one too.

[yeoman6987]

14. Agree....Get them all out of it. They can pray at home for hours and hours if they want.

[Democat]

2. How much taxpayer money are they willing to waste?

Hope the banned religious groups sues them and win.

[rug]

7. Stu de Haan is a lawyer bt he only does criminal defense.

https://www.facebook.com/De-Haan-Law-Firm-PLLC-134205913317699/?pnref=about.overview

[AllyCat]

4. Then ban it all. If you aren't going to allow it all, ban it all.

[brooklynite]

5. My divination of the Might Oracle tells me...

...there's a lawsuit in their future.

[jtuck004]

6. So if you are big enough and have enough money you can get your way. Teach the kids to piss

on Democracy.

Good job, AZ. If the real estate swindler gets crowned, you already have a head start on creating new brownshirts for him.

[Ilsa]

8. And how does the council define "substantial connection"? NT

[Nitram]

9. "substantial connection" = "Christian church-goer"

[atreides1]

12. The same way...

...that the US Supreme Court defines "sincere religious belief"!

[allan01]

11. hye az, protected by the same document that protects u in yr religious freedubs. wait for the lawsui

frack, i cant fell forth fa farn fhis forning . filly fingers fripping fall fover fhe flace