Devilish Doings

Certain pious folk in the Christian state of Oklahoma have placed a privately-funded monument in the grounds of the state's capitol building, and have thereby brought about some constitutional debate over how much the devil may be due. The monument is to the Ten Commandments, in case there is anyone in Oklahoma City who doesn't know about them; and given the continuing peril of Christianity it should come as no surprise that the godless communists of the American Civil Liberties Union have already filed a lawsuit seeking to have the sacred object removed. However, the Satanic Temple has taken a more constructive view, and has declared its intention to submit a design for another monument in "homage to the historic/literary Satan". At least one Oklahoma legislator has already reacted as one would expect from a Republican faced with the mention of history and literature in a single sentence: "I think these Satanists are a different group," said Bobby Cleveland, who presumably believes in a god who begot and then had crucified an Iron Age Palestinian apocalypse-monger with a penchant for circus tricks; "You put them under the nut category."