Florida town’s choice: Violate Supreme Court ruling or open meeting with Satanic prayer

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/09/florida-towns-choice-violate-supreme-court-ruling-or-open-meeting-with-satanic-prayer/

Less than three days after the Supreme Court ruled in Town of Greece v. Galloway that prayers before town meetings did not violate the Constitution’s ban on endorsing religion, a self-styled Satanist in Deerfield Beach, Florida has asked city officials to let him open a meeting with a Satanic prayer.

Chaz Stevens — who made headlines last December when he forced Florida Governor Rick Scott to allow him to erect an 8-foot-tall Festivus pole made of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans next to Deerfield Beach’s nativity manger — told the New Times that he recently converted from “Pabstfestidian” because “Satan is a cool dude.”

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He then tacked to a more serious course, adding “I just want equal billing. We allow various religious nutjobs to give a prayer. They pray to Jesus who is make-believe, god who is make-believe, why not Satan who is make-believe?”

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[Gman]

1. I think he'd find Pastafarianism more fulfilling

Ramen.

[msanthrope]

2. Or filling. nt

[dickthegrouch]

3. I think it's spelled foolfilling /nt

[shraby]

4. I don't see how they can stop him. It's called poetic justice.

[hobbit709]

5. Finagle is God and Murphy is His prophet.

[Ilsa]

11. Well said!

I'm going to mull over that a bit.
Has anyone ever interjected the "God" and "prophet" metaphors before?

[hobbit709]

13. It's from a Larry Niven book

[pinboy3niner]

6. They seem to be on the horns of a dilemma

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. At some level....

there may be hell to pay.

[surrealAmerican]

16. DUzy!

... as usual, thanks for making DU that much more fun.

[Initech]

8. Satanic prayer! Satanic prayer!!!

[Ilsa]

9. I like those see-sawing buddies! nt

[opiate69]

10. Lol. Makes me think of this:

[superpatriotman]

12. Deerfield Beach won't care

It's a quirky place.

[ieoeja]

14. Self-delete

[Nye Bevan]

15. I actually like this. Inclusiveness as opposed to censorship.

And I would find it very interesting to watch a prayer to Beelzebub.

[eppur_se_muova]

17. No one could have predicted ... nt