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The Holland Sentinel reports:
The Satanic Temple of West Michigan announced in March they’d been scheduled to give the meeting’s prayer April 23. The meeting drew one of the largest crowds the board has seen since Ottawa Impact commissioners took office in January 2023. Hundreds gathered in the lobby and in front of the Fillmore Complex.
Many stood in small groups to pray, sing hymns and hold signs opposed to the Satanic Temple. Attendees in the lobby continued to sing through the start of the meeting, including during the invocation.
It was a scene set in part by OI commissioners’ own staunch Christian beliefs. The invocation has also been given by Bart Spencer, senior pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church, who made headlines early in the pandemic when he encouraged his congregation to contract the virus to “get it over with.”
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“Satanic Temple invocation forces Ottawa County to reckon with the meaning of religious freedom”https://t.co/MPxq66OmwN
— Lucien Greaves (@LucienGreaves) April 24, 2024
Chaos erupts in a viewing room for the overflow crowd at the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners meeting during an invocation given by @satanic_temple_ pic.twitter.com/vNTrRsKCmM
— Left of Center MI (@leftofcentermi) April 23, 2024
Standing tall with a smile in the middle of a small room with every seat filled, a man identifying himself as Luis Cypher with the Satanic Temple of West Michigan greeted residents and commissioners before delivering the opening invocation.https://t.co/MShCy246sv
— FFRF (@FFRF) April 25, 2024
Protesters gather and sing at the Ottawa County building prior to the Satanic Temple of West Michigan giving the board’s opening prayer @GRPress pic.twitter.com/1EUYmwjmDg
— John Tunison (@johntunison) April 23, 2024