While I may not agree with this "religeon" I have to admit they have the same RIGHTS as Catholics, Baptists etc. etc. But the statue.. another story. Every day I read about someone being made to take doun a cross or some other symbol, even the American Flag, so..petition to ban the statue...YES !!! Just because they qualify as a religeon doesn't mean they can erect a statue where others may not.

Thousands Sign Online Petition to Stop ‘Black Mass’

Sep 16, 2014, via Good Morning America     BY ANDREW SPRINGER and MEGHAN KENEALLY

 

A Satanist group unveiled a statue design it hopes to put at the Oklahoma State Capitol.

Satanic Temple/AP Photo

Over 88,000 people have signed an online petition to stop a satanic black mass scheduled for later this week in Oklahoma City.

 A petition started by the conservative activist website CitizenGo.org calls on the Oklahoma City Civic Center to cancel the Sunday event. The petition calls the event "offensive and blasphemous,” and "designed as a mockery of the Catholic Mass.”

"We'll continue over the next week," CitizenGo's U.S. campaigns director Gregory Mertz told ABC News.

Each signature automatically sends an e-mail to both the general manager of the Civic Center and the city's mayor, he said. "Hopefully, they will do the right thing and cancel the black mass," he added.

Mertz says the website has protections in place to keep people from signing the petition, which launched Sept. 1, more than once.

READ: Satanists to Hold Controversial Black Mass in Oklahoma

Whatever the number of signatures, city officials have already gone on record defending the organization's right to hold the event. The Parks and Recreation Department, which rented the space to the group for $420, cited First Amendment protections in allowing the group to meet in a public facility.                                      FULL STORY