Satanic Temple Approved for Holiday Display in Florida Capitol

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They had issues approving it last year, but this year they have the go ahead for the holidays. http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/p...put_holiday_display_up_in_florida_capitol.php


After being rebuffed by officials last holiday season, the Satanic Temple has been given the green light to erect its holiday display in the Florida Capitol rotunda this year.According to the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Florida's Department of Management Services has agreed to allow the temple's display to be put up, reversing its stance from last year, when officials called the display "grossly offensive."

Last year, other groups' displays were allowed to be erected, including a Nativity scene, a Festivus pole made from beer cans, and a spaghetti monster sculpture.
See also: Satanic Temple Not Allowed to Put Holiday Display in Florida Capitol

Undeterred, the temple resubmitted a request to have its display put up this holiday. The group submitted its request in early October to avoid similar confusion as last year.
Last year, the group had also submitted a request with ample time and was even given the OK to go forward.

The temple said it went through the required channels and applied for a five-foot-by-five-foot square of the rotunda to put up its display, which depicted the scene from Isaiah 14:12, which reads: "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!"

But days after getting permission to put up the display, the group received an email from the Department of Management Services saying it was no longer eligible to put it up due to the display being "grossly offensive for the holidays," according to the email.

"I wrote an email asking for clarification," Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves told New Times last year. "Hours later, I called and left a voice-mail. We were perplexed."
The Department of Management Services never returned Greaves' phone calls or emails. Soon after, the deadline for putting up a display had passed and the Satanic Temple's attempts at putting up the display in time for the holidays were unsuccessful.
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It doesn't matter to me. It seems all religions want to push their beliefs on everyone else. Putting up a display is a lot better than preaching their beliefs on a street corner.
 
rkunsaw said:
It doesn't matter to me. It seems all religions want to push their beliefs on everyone else. Putting up a display is a lot better than preaching their beliefs on a street corner.
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OR, even worse, trying to force their beliefs on everyone else by electing people to pass legislation mandating it.
 
ClassicRockr said:
Some of us are Christians and darn PROUD of it!
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Yes... and some aren't and are also proud and are also good moral people. I think the problem is that Christians are still carrying around a persecution complex. NO ONE is saying that you cannot be a Christian and that you cannot be proud of it..
 
Josiah09 said:
That's fine. I'm an atheist and I'm proud of it and I'm proud that my absence of belief is supported by the Constitution in the same way that your Christian belief is supported.
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That is the issue... It appears to me that if the constitution protects the rights of Chistians... it also protects the rights of non-Christians. The problem seems to be that when others try to execute those same rights... Christians seem to feel they are being persecuted or denied their rights.. I simply do NOT understand that. This is NOT a Christian country. We are NOT a Theocracy. We are secular and everyone has a right to their religious belief system.. or lack of one. I get so sick of this "War on Christmas" crap every year.. There IS no war on Christmas.. OR Christians
 

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