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Satan May Be Saving America
(Starting With My Hometown)
Something very important happened earlier this week in a small, unimportant town in Alaska. Important things don’t usually happen in small-town Alaska, particularly not things that have far-reaching ramifications in the battle between religion and reason. But these are strange days.
Before a routine meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, a woman named Iris Fontana stood to give the invocation. Instead of the usual pithy prayer offered at such meetings, Iris intoned,
“That which will not bend, must break, and that which can be destoyed by truth should never be spared as demise. It is done. Hail Satan.”
Protests erupted outside the building, with Catholic prayer warriors flying up from seven states to wield the supernatural power of the Holy Rosary and rebuke the devil. They almost swamped the local protest, which was slightly more modest (this is fishing season, high summer, and people have a lot to do). All in all, about 40 people stood on the street corner holding signs professing love for Christ and hatred of his ancient enemy.
How did the Dark One come to be invoked at a town meeting in nowhere, Alaska? Ms. Fontana, along with several other non-Christian assembly members (including one atheist and one Jewish woman) were part of a…
