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TexasTowelie

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Sat Aug 18, 2018, 07:12 AM Aug 2018

Satanists have wheeled a demonic goat statue onto the lawn of the Arkansas Capitol [View all]

The devil went down to ... Arkansas?

The Satanic Temple wheeled its giant statue of the goat-like figure Baphomet onto the lawn of the Arkansas State Capitol Thursday.

The jarring installation is the culmination of the church’s protest against a 2015 bill signed into law in Arkansas that allows “the placement on the State Capitol grounds of a suitable monument commemorating the Ten Commandments.”

Dozens of protestors gathered as the 8.5-foot statue was unveiled, according to a tweet from the scene from a KLRT reporter.

Meanwhile, supporters shouted, “Hail Satan!”




Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article216821490.html
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