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Title: After protests over Satanic monument, city removes all religious symbols from memorial
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URL Source: http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/20 ... ligious-symbols-from-memorial/
Published: Jul 22, 2017
Author: CNS
Post Date: 2017-07-23 13:49:04 by Anthem
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Two days after hundreds of people — many of them Catholic — from around the US descended on Belle Plaine, Minnesota to protest the installation of a Satanic memorial in the city’s veterans park, the City Council voted unanimously July 17 to remove all religious symbols there. The council rescinded a designation that made a portion of the park available for monument commissions from any religious group. The decision blocked the arrival of the monument commissioned by the Satanic Temple, but it also sealed the departure of the “Joe” monument, a small iron-cast silhouette of a soldier kneeling on one knee in front of a cross grave marker. Joseph Gregory, a local veteran who died in October 2016, made the memorial. “It’s an outcome I can live with,” said Fr Brian Lynch, pastor of Our Lady of the Prairie in Belle Plaine, “but it’s far from a perfect outcome” because the “Joe” statute also had to go. The statue and proposed Satanic memorial became the center of a controversy that made national headlines. It began in August 2016, when the Belle Plaine Vets Club placed the “Joe” statue in the park. A Belle Plaine resident and Freedom From Religion Foundation member complained about “Joe” looking too religious for public property. The City Council had the monument’s cross removed at the request of the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation. Vets Club members filled a council meeting in February to request the cross’ return. A 3-2 council vote created a limited public forum area in the park, which allowed “Joe” to have the cross back. The designation provided a place where any religion could erect a memorial in the park. The Freedom From Religion Foundation then invited the Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple to commission a memorial for the Belle Plaine park. The city approved the application. The memorial commissioned by the Satanic Temple — which claims no belief in Satan as a being — was recently completed, but it had yet to be sent to Belle Plaine. Its design included occult symbolism. Concerns over the Satanic memorial drew hundreds of people to a rosary rally and an adjacent counter rally at Veterans Memorial Park July 15. America Needs Fatima, an independent Pennsylvania-based Catholic organization, held the rosary rally, while Minnesota’s Left Hand Path community, which includes Satanists, held a counter rally in support of The Satanic Temple’s monument. America Needs Fatima rally organizer William Siebenmorgen, a Pennsylvania resident, said the rally drew 250 people from around the country — including Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas and Kentucky — for the rosary, hymns and prayers. “The issue is really not about a free speech zone, it’s about trying to prevent Satanism from gaining acceptance,” said Robert Ritchie, America Needs Fatima executive director. Ritchie did not attend the event. The two rallies coincided with Belle Plaine’s town festival parade on nearby Main Street, a decision Fr Lynch questioned. “They were basically asking (local) people to choose between going to the parade or going to (the rally),” Fr Lynch told The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. “I think many of us (in Belle Plaine) tire from having people from the outside telling us how to do things.” Outside input also wore on city officials, and top officials put the resolution to remove the park’s limited public forum on the council’s July 17 agenda four days before the meeting. According to Ritchie, America Needs Fatima sent a petition with about 23,000 signatures to the city opposing the Satanic memorial. Interim city administrator Dawn Meyer told the Belle Plaine Herald that “city hall received about 300 calls” July 12 alone about the Satanic memorial. She also told the Herald that the “controversy has limited the city staff’s ability to complete tasks.” A City Council news release on the July 17 decision stated that limited public space had been designated to honor veterans, it but had been “overshadowed by freedom of speech concerns expressed by both religious and non-religious communities.” The statement added that it “promoted divisiveness among our own residents” and “portrayed our city in a negative light.” It also mentioned the council had the support of veterans organizations in removing the space. Gregory’s family had the “Joe” memorial removed before the July 15 rally and counter-rally. Family members were unavailable for comment. Fr Lynch believes the city’s decision doesn’t end a fundamental battle that took place — taking Christian symbolism out of the public square. He said Satanic Temple and Freedom From Religion Foundation “got what they wanted” with the removal of “Joe.” “They are childish,” Fr Lynch said. “There’s no real desire for Satanists to honor vets. It’s intended to cause disruption in the community so that people cave in and remove any Christian imagery from public places.” He added: “There’s a desire to reframe the country as a country without religion.” Poster Comment: Christian got suckered (again). They should have let the "satanic" monument be emplaced and get the public attention it deserves. Expose the sponsors -- name names.
An atheist group [code for Jews] invited a Satanic Temple to put up the monument as an act of provocation
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#1. To: Anthem (#0)
The monument was placed with the express purpose of goading Christians into buckling to the removal of all religious symbols. It is the Hegelian dialect performed perfectly.
Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.
He needs to go back and reread the First Amendment which states in black and white, Congress shall make no law to enforce any religious belief upon the citizens. This means the cross, the star of David or any other religious images. Now if he really is sincere about this country being founded on God, who is this god? Because in scripture it plainly says, you shall make no images of the god you serve for they are graven.
They are good at it.
BINGO. The Enemy of the Globalist State IS "Christian" ANY-THING. Even whether it's every last vestige of our Founders' past and foundation of our Bill of Rights and constitution. Secular Humanism IS a religion. It's a Cult in which man = god. It is they who have ushered in the Homofascist-run local, state, and fed gubmints -- as well as the Leftist courts. It is they -- Secular Humanists/Militant Atheist who have ushered in the Third World invasion and altered Judeo-Christian, Western Civ-base of America's original citizenry since 1965.
"Who is this god?"?? Come on -- stop this silliness. You mean the above is an "image of the god" that we "serve"? That it should be considered a "graven image"? Is that the context you're suggesting? That is a statue of a man kneeling before the grave stone of a fallen comrade. Are you insulted by the Cross? Seems to me you're taking a BROAD license on this issue. Miles worth. Q: Are YOU a Christian?
Now I want to see this Satanic veteran's monument. Apparently they won without even having to ship it out there and put it up in the park. I suppose they can keep it around to use to attack other veteran parks and military cemeteries later.
#2. To: Anthem (#0)
He added: “There’s a desire to reframe the country as a country without religion.”
#3. To: jeremiad (#1)
It is the Hegelian dialect performed perfectly.
#4. To: jeremiad (#1)
The monument was placed with the express purpose of goading Christians into buckling to the removal of all religious symbols. It is the Hegelian dialect performed perfectly.
#5. To: goldilucky (#2)
Now if he really is sincere about this country being founded on God, who is this god? Because in scripture it plainly says, you shall make no images of the god you serve for they are graven.
#6. To: Anthem (#0)
The Freedom From Religion Foundation then invited the Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple to commission a memorial for the Belle Plaine park. The city approved the application. The memorial commissioned by the Satanic Temple — which claims no belief in Satan as a being — was recently completed, but it had yet to be sent to Belle Plaine. Its design included occult symbolism.
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