Kenai Borough Assembly opens with invocation to Satan.

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Members of the Kenai Borough Assembly stand during the invocation, featuring a satanic prayer from a guest, at the start of Tuesday’s meeting. (From Kenai Borough video)

The invocation that started the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly's Tuesday meeting was a little different than usual: Instead of espousing the ideals of Christianity, it carried a message of Satanism.

It was the culmination of recent discussion at the Assembly around whether to keep up with the tradition of opening meetings with prayers, or whether doing so was excluding those who hold different beliefs.

In June, the Assembly discussed an ordinance aimed at doing away with invocations before meetings, but not enough members voted in favor of introducing it

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Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old," said Fontana, who the Assembly identified as a member of the Satanic Temple. "Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of all or one. That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is done. Hail Satan."

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