Good for Them! Baphomet Raises Hell Over Religious Freedom In Arkansas

This is awesome!  Since the south seems so obsessed that "religious freedom" only applies to conservative Christianity southerners hate it when any other religion makes public appearances. "Religious Freedom" laws have already been used to discriminate against Muslims, Buddhists, Jews and atheists. So,Satanists decided to  make a big public splash in Arkansas to show them what religious freedom means. It means ALL religions and non-religions have the same rights. 
BOTTOM LINE: Sometimes you have to "give 'em Hell to get the message through to people.
  We're not Satanists by any means, but good for them!

 STORY:   Satanic Temple’s Baphomet Raises Hell Over Religious Freedom In Arkansas

Supporters of the Satanic Temple wheeled a statue of Baphomet, a winged, goat-headed creature, onto the grounds of the Arkansas state capitol on Thursday in a protest about religious freedom. The goat-headed creature took on the Ten Commandments monument at a rally in Little Rock.

. Members and supporters of the Satanic Temple wheeled a statue of winged, goat-headed creature Baphomet onto the grounds of the Arkansas state capitol on Thursday to horn in on a battle over religious freedom.

The Baphomet rally protested a Ten Commandments monument installed last year outside the state capitol after lawmakers approved it in 2015. In May, the American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of four Arkansas women to remove the monument, saying it violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty for all.

Lucien Greaves, spokesman and co-founder of the Satanic Temple, characterized the event as a rally for “all people who hold sacred the founding Constitutional principles of religious freedom and free expression” in a statement to HuffPost.

“What we are asking for is only that the public square ... remain an area where free speech, religious liberty and equality under the law be respected by the holders of public office who swore to uphold those values,” Greaves told a crowd at the rally on Thursday

Woman poses with Baphomet

Despite the Baphomet statue, members of the Satanic Temple, which is headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts, don’t worship any deity. They consider themselves “compassionate” humanists who believe in science. The Satanic Temple’s mission is to “encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority [and] advocate practical common sense and justice,” according to its website.

Satanic Temple members have been involved in others protests for religious freedom. Because evangelical Christians won a Supreme Court decision allowing them to teach classes on public school grounds, the Satanic Temple launched its own (forked) tongue-in-cheek “After School Satan Club” featuring “rationality” and “fun.”

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXq835Omy7c