By Bob Walsh
The members of the Phoenix City Council are seeking an emergency rule change because they got a result they didn’t like.
The Satanic Temple of Tucson submitted a request to the city clerk back in December to get put on the rotation of the groups that do the opening prayer at city council meetings. Under the proposed new rule the mayor and council members would select the prayer leader on a rotating basis, presumably from a list that they do not find objectionable.
Satanic Temple leader Stu De Haan has complained that this move is discriminatory and a constitutional violation. You never know, he could be right. I expect they are sniveling to the ACLU right now to get somebody with deeper pockets to underwrite a legal challenge.
That is the trouble when you announce that you have a rotation list and allow people to turn in their request. You can get Rastafarians, Pastafarians, Unitarians, Satanists, Druids, Witches, Muslims, Moonies, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholics, all sorts of undesirable people.
Maybe they should do something REALLY radical and leave religion at home.
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Catholics?
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