Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ® said he would support the legal fund of a man who is accused of vandalizing a display by The Satanic Temple inside the Iowa Capitol on Thursday.
Michael Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for knocking over and destroying a statue erected by the temple inside the capitol, The Des Moines Register first reported.
“Satan has no place in our society and should not be recognized as a ‘religion’ by the federal government,” DeSantis said on X, formerly Twitter. “I’ll chip in to contribute to this veteran’s legal defense fund. Good prevails over evil — that’s the American spirit.”
Ron is falling for the trap. This ends with all religious symbols being removed.
Actually, I think this likely ends with Michael Cassidy paying TST for vandalizing their statue. Which means ol’ Ronnie is effectively making a donation to TST.
They should send him a thank you letter with the Tenets and sign him up for their mailing list
TST is not evil. They would not add him to their mailing list.
They would if there was a chance he’d read them:
“The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions”
They don’t have a mailing list actually. Likely because people would sign up religious people just to be annoying.
You can actually do this already
https://thesatanictemple.com/products/donation-thank-you-cards-for-elected-officials?variant=40127322816646
That card is absolutely wonderful. No notes from me.
Who knows with this Supreme Court…
The Supreme Court would have to rule Christianity is the only legal religion which violates established law.
They could pull the same bullshit they did with the Pledge and the Motto, saying that they were culturally relevant and had no religious effect because nobody takes the pledge or the motto that seriously. “Nativity scenes have a long tradition in local govern buildings yadda yadda christofascism.”
The fact that the supreme Court can use that argument is insane. Is not washing our hands before surgery American tradition? Is slavery American tradition? Just because we’ve done something before, doesn’t make it legal in any other topic area.
Americans also just renamed some of their Christian holidays in order to pretend that there’s equality. My daughter still has to do homework during Chanukkah every night but gets the week of Christmas off but now the same exact vacation from school is called “winter break” so it’s totally “not religious now.”
Was just thinking about this with my college, as finals week is during Chanukkah. I don’t think concessions should be made for any religion, but it’s definitely a blatant sign that christians think they are more important than everyone else and that it’s essentially already the state religion in the US.
That would be an argument for not putting the statue up, not a solid case that a random citizen has the right to destroy the property. The statue was up and he has the right to petition or sue for removal, not to take it into his own hands even if the statue was up illegally. But I’m not a law person so I could be off the mark.
Like that would stop them.
So, completely plausible.
Not in Iowa. I live here. They will absolutely remove the Satanic symbol and proclaim that it is because of religious freedom.
…it will make sense to them.
The courts will not take the same view though. And that’s the point.
No, it doesn’t. It ends with only Christian shit remaining.
Good