'It Is Done. #HailSatan :' City Immediately Regrets New #ReligiousLiberty Law That Allows #Prayer at City Council Meeting
An #Iowa man has kicked off #controversy over #religiousfreedom in the small town of Ottumwa, Iowa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about the proper time in the meeting agenda to undo the “curse.”
On Tuesday night, #Ottumwa resident, #satanist , and former city council member Matt Dalbey took the podium to read an invocation to start a routine meeting of the council. “Thank you mayor, council. Let us pray,” Dalbey started. “Dear dark father, let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds and darkened times. Let us embrace the #Luciferan impulse to eat off the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old.”
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