Every year, in response to overtly Christian displays put up in government buildings, the Satanic Temple petitions to set up a display honoring Lucifer in state capitols.
By putting up altars to Satan next to the annual nativity scenes, the Satanic Temple makes their point about the silliness of this loophole.
Every year, Christian conservatives discover the Satanic display and have a loud, public temper tantrum about it.
The overt religious iconography on government property was always about promoting the Christian nationalist view that theirs is the only "real" American religion.
The Satanists and their fans get a chance to remind everyone that Republicans are hypocrites who never really believed all that "free speech" talk.
It's this message the Satanic Temple is trying to remind us all of with their holiday display.
The reaction to the Satanic altar in Iowa shows the emptiness of GOP rhetoric about "free speech." »
