Vance Boelter, who allegedly shot Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband, Mark Hortman, on June 14, 2025, studied at Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas.

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The Satanic Temple installed a holiday display in front of the State House in December, featuring a goat-headed statue dressed in a flowing black robe with a rope belt knotted at the waist.

The Satanic Temple's holiday display, including a Baphomet statue and 7 tenets of the religion, was placed Saturday in the city plaza in front of the NH State House.

On December 7, the mannequin wearing robes and a goat mask was dismembered, and a tablet engraved with the seven fundamental tenets of the Satanic Temple was smashed. The display had been met with ...

It is joined by a flag and tablet with The Temple’s Seven Fundamental Tenets. Unveiled a week ago Saturday evening, the display was damaged and vandalized last Monday night and then removed.

The display of the satanic figure Baphomet and the group's seven fundamental tenets was unveiled last weekend. Tuesday morning, it had to be removed after it was vandalized.

In the figure’s right hand is a bouquet of lilacs, and in its left is an apple. The figure is covered by a black robe and a stole featuring the Satanic Temple’s symbol and upside-down crosses. At its ...

The display depicted the pagan deity Baphomet and the Satanic Temple's seven fundamental tenets. In one hand, the figure held an apple to honor Isaac Newton and celebrate science and the pursuit ...

The legs of the black Baphomet outside the State House stood standing, but its head was on the ground, robes crumpled and panel of Seven Fundamental Tenets shattered.

A holiday display that leaders from The Satanic Temple in New Hampshire and Vermont installed on a city plaza in Concord, N.H., shown at left on Monday, Dec. 9, was toppled in an apparent act of ...