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  • 2016-01-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Obama Allows Satanic Ceremony at State Capitol (en)
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  • On 31 December 2015, the unreliable web site America's Freedom Fighters published an article headlined BREAKING: Obama Allows Nation’s First SATANIC Ceremony at State Capitol in History. The supposedly breaking item pertained to a 19 December 2015 event that was widely covered in local news reports: The article's headline suggested that the event in question had been undersigned by President Obama himself, and the unqualified use of State Capitol misleadingly hinted that the content referenced a federal building in Washington, D.C. In early December 2015 the the Detroit Free Press published an article about the then-upcoming ceremony, noting that the Satanic Temple isn't a real satanic group but rather a secular organization that protests religious displays on public grounds: This reporting contained a number of important pieces of context absent from the America's Freedom Fighters article: that the group involved was secular (not actually Satanic), that the event was a protest of non-secular displays in government spaces, and that the only official agency whose permission was sought was the Michigan State Capitol Commission. President Obama was neither mentioned nor involved, directly or indirectly, in the reported events. The Lansing State Journal published an article reporting that other groups had also applied for permits to set up counter-religious displays: Lansing television station WILX covered the event after its conclusion: The Detroit Metro Times also reported on the protest: (en)
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