Could Satanists get a monument at Oklahoma State Capitol?

Published December 8, 2013 10:49pm ET



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR — A group of Satan worshippers says the Oklahoma Legislature’s decision in 2009 to allow a privately funded monument to the Ten Commandments on the state capitol grounds means they should have equal access to build a monument of their own.

The Satanic Temple of New York has alerted theOklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission that it wants to build a $20,000 monument on the statehouse grounds. The temple plans to submit plans this month for a monument that would be in “good taste” – which an official describes as a marker with a pentagram or an interactive display for children, according to theAssociated Press.

State Rep. Bobby Cleveland (R) told the AP that the idea was preposterous. “These Satanists are a different group,” he said. “You put them under the nut category.”

Read more at The Christian Science Monitor.