by Geoffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins:
A satanic ‘Christmas display’ placed in the Iowa Capitol is unconstitutional, says an eastern Iowa lawmaker who is calling on Gov. Kim Reynolds to order its removal.
When you think of Iowa, what comes to mind? I’ve been there, it’s beautiful, it’s a place most people think of as the heartland of America. God, country and family. The baseball classic movie ‘Field of Dreams’. Apple pie cooling in a farmhouse window. The start of our election cycle. Iowa. Well, now you can add to that an altar of Baphomet placed in the Iowa State Capitol Rotunda by the Satanic Temple as a ‘Christmas display’.
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Every day it seems, another huge chunk of America is swallowed up and flushed down the toilet. Sadly, most of the America I grew up in now exists only in my memories. The America that’s here now is a dystopian counterfeit, where woke demons lurk around every corner. When I was growing up, the idea that a satanic display, in this case an altar built to worship Baphomet, could be on display anywhere, much less at Christmas much less in a revered state capitol, is truly stunning. Displaying satanism is not free speech, it’s demonic, and if it was in my state I would smash it to the ground. Any Christian would. So that leads me to believe that conservative Republican governor Kim Reynolds is not.
Iowa lawmaker calls for Gov. Kim Reynolds to remove satanic display from Capitol
FROM THE DES MOINES REGISTER: The controversy began bubbling last week after a group that calls itself the Satanic Temple of Iowa, though it lists no physical location on its Facebook page, placed with state permission a small altar on the first floor of the Capitol. It displays what are described online as the “seven fundamental tenets” of Satanism, including the statement that “the freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend.”
Completing the display are the temple’s seal, electric candles and a caped figure representing the pagan idol Baphomet, holding a ribbon-bedecked pentangle and topped with a gilded ram’s head.
Sherman says the exhibit has drawn widespread “outrage and disgust” among Iowans, “but few people think there is much that can be legally done about it because of free speech and freedom of religion.”
“However,” he adds, “I disagree.”
He points to the preamble to the Iowa Constitution, which says, “WE THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF IOWA, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of those blessings, do ordain and establish a free and independent government, by the name of the State of Iowa… .”
But Sherman, a pastor, may not have wholehearted support of his initiative from other Republican legislators, some of whom say they would oppose the government limiting freedom of speech in reaction to the display, which will be in place for a total of two weeks.
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