Thursday, January 17, 2013

Satanists planning rally for Florida Gov. Rick Scott

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has some unexpected, and likely unwanted, new support (Logo from Satanic Temple website/Scott??

Florida Gov. Rick Scott may have earned himself a new constituency, but the devil is in the details.

Local news site WPBF.com reported that a group of Satanists plans to hold a rally outside Scott's office on Jan. 25 to support the governor?s signing of a bill that allows students to pray at school events.

"We've gotten such a response, it's just impossible for me to know what that translates into," Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves told WPBF, regarding how many will show up at the rally.

?You don?t build up your membership unless people know about you,? Greaves said in a separate interview with the Palm Beach Post. ?So this allows us to get our message out in public. We?re hoping it will reduce the stigmatism.?

The Satanic Temple was launched in 2012 with what Greaves described as being ?more or less an online community.?

The group?s website describes itself as being different from other, better-known Satanic organizations. Greaves said the rally is part of a larger ongoing effort at making the group?s beliefs more commonplace in mainstream discussions of religion and belief. From the website:

?Though we have far to go before public education leads to a mainstream embrace of our Satanic religion, we feel that our own public ?coming out? will go a long way toward raising the consciousness of the populace ? and the social environment has never yet been better prepared for the welcoming of a new Satanic era.?

The group?s founder, Neil Bricke, is scheduled to speak at the rally.

"We feel it's time for Satanists to come out and say exactly who we are," Greaves said.

So, what does Scott think of the newly organized support?

"This is a great country. Everyone has a voice," Gov. Scott's press secretary wrote in an email to ABCNews.com.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/satanists-planning-rally-florida-gov-rick-scott-231148312.html

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