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After the request to install the Baphomet statue was refused, in an alleged violation of the Equal Protection Clause, Satanic Temple members were granted legal standing to challenge the Ten Commandments monument. [9] The monument is being challenged as unconstitutional by the American Civil Liberties Union. [5]
In January 2014, the Satanic Temple announced plans to also crowdfund [19] and privately commission a 7-to-9-foot-tall bronze statue of Baphomet [18] to be displayed alongside the Christian monument, both statues being legally classified as "donations". [20] The Satanic Temple ultimately raised over $28,000 to finance and build the statue of ...
A vandal destroyed the Ten Commandments monument in 2014 and plans for the Baphomet statue were put on hold, as the Satanic Temple did not want their statue to stand alone at the capitol. After the Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered the monument removed, the statue was unveiled elsewhere in Detroit [ 15 ] and is now on public display at Salem Art ...
When Arkansas installed a statue of the Ten Commandments outside the State Capitol, the Temple unveiled its own statue of Baphomet, a goat-headed figure, there, too.
The Satanic Temple is making headlines this week after unveiling a 1-ton, 9-foot-tall statue at an industrial building near the Detroit River. The statue is of a Baphomet, a goat-headed idol found ...
A Satanic Temple altar with a statue of the pagan idol Baphomet that was permitted at the Iowa State Capitol next to the nativity scene last December brought widespread outrage, criticism and ...
In 2014, The Satanic Temple commissioned an 8.5 ft (2.6 m) statue of Baphomet to stand alongside a monument of the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol, citing "respect for diversity and religious minorities" as reasons for the monument.
The Satanic Temple (TST) is a non-theistic organization and new religious movement, [1] founded in 2013 and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts.Established in reaction to the "intrusion of Christian values on American politics", [4] [9] congregations have also formed in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom.