Phoenix City Council wants Satanists exorcised from meeting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Phoenix City Council wants Satanists exorcised from meeting

Updated 4:13 pm, Saturday, January 30, 2016

PHOENIX (AP) — Members of the Phoenix City Council are seeking a new rule to stop a satanic group from delivering the opening prayer at an upcoming meeting.

KPNX-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1RRPO9E) that City Manager Ed Zuercher said Friday night that a council meeting will weigh a proposal next week on changing how the city schedules groups that give the prayer.

Four council members want the new rule to be enacted within 24 hours.

The Satanic Temple of Tucson submitted a request in December to the city clerk's office. The group was scheduled to participate in a Feb. 17 meeting.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Phoenix-City-Council-wants-Satanists-exorcised-6795562.php

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The Devils are coming! (Tasmanian) [/center]

[niyad]

1. so only certain prayers are allowed in a civic, tax-payer funded venue? who gets to decide?

if only certain xians are allowed, the should know that they will run into some serious problems.

[keithbvadu2]

6. "only certain prayers"

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist=

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

[SCantiGOP]

2. They can ban the Satanists

Simply pass a rule that no one prays before the meeting. Problem solved.

[eggplant]

3. I think that was the idea. n/t

[bluestateguy]

4. Very simple solution to their dilemma

Solution: no prayers by any religion before an official government meeting.

Problem solved.

Next.

[pocoloco]

5. May take a Muslim to shut the prayers down!

[rurallib]

7. if the councilors want prayer they can pray at home, in their cars

in the elevator to the meeting or in the stall in the bathroom all they want - silently to themselves.

[Hestia]

8. Goddess forbid that any pagan give the prayer, but that is usually whats happens - city

council decides that if it ain't christian ain't nobody giving a prayer. Chicken shits.

Thing about it is on this is that the Satanic Temple sues govt's. They are very effective in fundraising for lawsuits. Can't wait to see how the one in Missouri and the waiting period on abortions comes out.

[niyad]

12. wasn't it georgie boy who specifically excluded pagans from the faith initiatives that were

supposed to do the charity work taking up the slack from food stamps, etc?

[jmowreader]

9. Why are baby devils so damn cute?

[Judi Lynn]

10. They can't help themselves!

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A yawning devil.



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[jmowreader]

11. They look like a cross between a bear cub and a rat

[LiberalElite]

14. Uhhh. What nice teeth they have

are they part piranha? or maybe shark (I see two rows of bottom teeth in that pic)

[trillion]

15. I'm pretty sure those are photoshoped teeth.

[LiberalElite]

16. AH. And they got them from

a piranha or a shark.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Either everyone can pray or nobody can.

Ball's in their court.