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In addition to being an *sshole who supports the police state and wants more
Phoenix cops,
Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio also seems to want to use
government to shove his Christian values down our throats.
Sal DiCiccio also just seems to be one of those flaming *ssholes you wish you could kill. Years ago after I sent a email to Phoenix City Council Sal DiCiccio bitching about Phoenix government the *sshole added me to his junk mail list. I sent him an email asking me to remove my name from the list. Instead of removing my name from his junk mail list Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio more or less sent me an email telling me to f*ck off. I still get junk mails from the *sshole. Montini: DiCiccio compares Satanic Temple to…ISIS? EJ Montini, The Republic | azcentral.com 1:48 p.m. MST February 8, 2016 Apparently we missed something on TV Sunday morning that was WAY more entertaining than the interminable Super Bowl pre-game programs. Phoenix City Council member Sal DiCiccio compared the members of the Satanic Temple who were scheduled to give the invocation at a council later this month to … ISIS. Yes, those guys. As if giving an inane 2- minute invocation at a council meeting was the same thing as destroying property, abusing women, murdering innocent civilians and beheading prisoners. It happened on Channel 12’s “Sunday Square Off” program hosted by Brahm Resnik. Last week, Phoenix City Council changed its invocation policy from one in which different denominations could present the pre-meeting prayer to one that allows for a simple moment of silence. DiCiccio referred to this as “basically a banning prayer.” Which, basically, it does not. Those who choose to pray in silence can do so, and no one can stop them. In a city council meeting or anywhere else. Still, DiCiccio and others were very upset by the way the Satanic Temple had managed to disrupt a long tradition. Which they did. Members of the group are instigators. They took advantage of a flaw in the city policy knowing it would irritate a lot of people and get them a little attention. Even people who believe a moment of silence is a better way to go (like me) didn’t have a problem with the old invocations. Still, the temple’s actions don’t make them ISIS. Part of DiCiccio’s conversation with Resnick went like this: DiCiccio: Braham, you wouldn’t let ISIS come in and give a prayer at the city of Phoenix. Resnik: Are you comparing these guys to ISIS? DiCiccio: Well, ISIS is evil. What is Satan? I think most people would say that Satan is evil. If I were to ask your viewers right now… Resnick: You cannot compare these guys to ISIS. DiCiccio: Satanists, they’re devil worshipers. Resnik: No they’re not. Have you read what they said? Have you talked to them? DiCiccio: Do you really want to get into a debate about what a Satanist is and isn’t? I’m going to take them for they say that what they are. They call themselves Satanists. That is evil. Resnik: They do not call themselves devil worshipers DiCiccio: Well, who was Satan? The councilman went on to refer to the group as a cult and a few other things. We learned last week that the followers of the Satanic Temple are agnostics. They said that they do not believe Satan actually exists but see the biblical Satan as a metaphor for rebellion. The group describes its mission as encouraging “benevolence and empathy among all people,” but adds, “the freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend.” They successfully exercised that freedom last week. Some would say that over the years I’ve exercised that freedom myself, in print, once or twice. Or maybe more. Does that make me ISIS?
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