{"id":9743,"date":"2024-02-14T04:14:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/democratic-lawmaker-worships-devil-honors-satanists-during-arizona-senate-floor-session\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T04:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:44:18","slug":"democratic-lawmaker-worships-devil-honors-satanists-during-arizona-senate-floor-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/democratic-lawmaker-worships-devil-honors-satanists-during-arizona-senate-floor-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Lawmaker Worships Devil, Honors Satanists During Arizona Senate Floor Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Democrat State Senator Juan Mendez showed his support for the devil as he honored and welcomed Satanists to the Arizona Senate last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez thanked the Satanists for taking \u201cnoble action\u201d and said he\u2019s \u201cgraced\u201d with their presence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers, I would like to introduce a group of Arizonans \u2013 some from my district but they have membership all across the state,\u201d Mendez said during a Senate floor session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are here to confront the arbitrary, tyrannical authority of religious persecution that\u2019s scheduled for government committee later on today. We are graced with the presence of ministers and members of the Satanic Temple of Arizona. Please stand today. They are at the Capitol today to fight for the rights of their more than 12,000 members of their denomination and the rights of free speech and free exercise of all Arizonans,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez defended the Satanic Temple and complimented them for their \u201cnoble actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Temple practices non-theistic Satanism divorced from superstition without any belief in gods or devils. They practice the religious values of compassion, justice, bodily autonomy, free speech, science, humility and noble actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CHILLING!!<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Senator, Juan Mendez, shows his support for worshiping the devil as he proudly honors and welcomes Satanists and their satanic ministry to the Senate today. <\/p>\n<p>The Senator promotes them as taking &#8216;noble action&#8217; and says he&#8217;s &#8216;graced&#8217; with their presence. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1p5fsM54UQ\">pic.twitter.com\/1p5fsM54UQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AZSenateRepublicans (@AZSenateGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZSenateGOP\/status\/1755311118451642469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/democratic-lawmaker-worships-devil-honors-satanists-during-arizona-senate-floor-session\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat State Senator Juan Mendez showed his support for the devil as he honored and welcomed Satanists to the Arizona Senate last week. Mendez thanked the Satanists for taking \u201cnoble action\u201d and said he\u2019s \u201cgraced\u201d with their presence. \u201cMembers, I would like to introduce a group of Arizonans \u2013 some from my district but they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}