Published December 12, 2014 by The Palm Beach Post (via Press Herald). Chaz Stevens, a blogger from Deerfield Beach, doesn’t actually believe in Satan, but he wants to show “how ridiculous it is to pray at City Hall” by delivering a Satanic invocation. “It’s a vehicle to show separation of church and state… My whole point here is to really, …
Published May 15, 2014 by WLRN Public Media. Aiming to poke fun at a Supreme Court ruling allowing prayers at meetings, Stevens asked Deerfield Beach to let him open a commission meeting with a Satanic prayer}. He sees the request as a challenge to church-state entanglement and vowed to sue if denied. Read the entire story here.
Published December 13, 2013 by WLRN Public Media. Original article: Florida Capitol’s Festivus Pole Gets International Attention:contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}:contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}. A 6-foot pole made of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans is making news around the world as it stands in Florida’s Capitol building:contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}. Stevens, an atheist activist, said he intended to “make a circus out of it” to protest government endorsement of religious …