The Satanic Temple temporarily placed a bronze, goat-headed statue of Baphomet in front of Arkansas’ state capitol building Thursday to protest a Ten Commandments monument placed there in 2017.
The group brought in the seven-and-a-half-foot tall monument on a flatbed truck Thursday and unveiled it at the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol, KTHV reported.
“I present to you Baphomet,” Lucien Greaves, co-founder of The Satanic Temple, told a crowd of 150 Satanists, atheists, and Christians gathered near the Arkansas State Capitol for the group’s “First Amendment” rally, according to a video from the protest. READ MORE