{"id":9975,"date":"2016-08-12T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-borough-assembly-opens-meeting-with-appeal-to-satan\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:03:14","slug":"alaska-borough-assembly-opens-meeting-with-appeal-to-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-borough-assembly-opens-meeting-with-appeal-to-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska borough assembly opens meeting with appeal to Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KENAI \u2014 An Alaska borough assembly opened a meeting Tuesday with a call for guidance from the powers of Lucifer.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly featured an invocation from a member of the Satanic Temple.<\/p>\n<p>Iris Fontana called on the gathered to \u201cembrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She called for reasoning solutions with agnosticism and \u201cholding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She closed her comments with, \u201cHail Satan. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenai radio station KSRM reported that the assembly recently offered people of various faiths the chance to give invocations.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Dale Bagley says he appreciates Assembly President Blaine Gilman trying to be fair.<\/p>\n<p>But he says Fontana\u2019s invocation was a political statement and a pastor doing that likely would not be asked to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENAI \u2014 An Alaska borough assembly opened a meeting Tuesday with a call for guidance from the powers of Lucifer. The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly featured an invocation from a member of the Satanic Temple. Iris Fontana called on the gathered to \u201cembrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge.\u201d She called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}