It looks like people aren’t putting up with intentionally offensive page displays being shoved in between the manger and the menorah this year. Just a few days after the Satanic Temple’s second attempt at erecting a demon goat statue outside the New Hampshire State Capitol was thwarted by vandals - or heroes, depending on how you see it - a group of Minnesota Satanists found themselves facing similar pushback after putting up a similar satanic display at their own state house.
The display, which was set up just across from the Minnesota Capitol’s Christmas tree, featured a pentagram, a phoenix, and several cranes, all in homage to Satan.
Failed vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s office said in a statement that they’d permitted the offensive display as not to “police speech.”
"The governor does not agree with the display and did not approve it. But the First Amendment means that he does not police speech in the State Capitol,” Walz’s office said.
But while the governor might not want to keep a relatively small group of intentionally divisive pagans from thumbing their nose at faithful people on one of their holiest holidays of the year, it turns out others had no problem taking action themselves. According to reports, the display was knocked over Tuesday, presumably by someone who preferred not to kowtow to people intentionally insulting Christians, Jews, and other people of genuine faith over the holidays.
Just a day before the display was vandalized, a large group of Minnesota lawmakers and other elected officials had gathered across from it to pray and sing Christian carols, refusing to let a pagan monument to evil win out over the true meaning of Christmas.
The large group prays over state reps and elected officials that have gathered inside the Minnesota State Capitol where a satanic exhibit went on display days before Christmas. pic.twitter.com/k9N70fJAo0
— Jenna Gloeb (@Jenna_Gloeb) December 18, 2024