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A pastor interrupted an Ottumwa City Council meeting Tuesday after a former council member opened the session with an invocation that ended with a salute to Satan, setting off a dispute over how far the Iowa city's new open-prayer policy reaches. The man who led the prayer said he is a member of…
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
The Ottumwa City Council later issued a statement saying 'we cannot discriminate against a denomination.'
Matt Dalbey, an Ottumwa resident and former city council member, delivered the invocation
A former Ottumwa City Council member opened a meeting with a satanic prayer ending in "Hail Satan," prompting a pastor to call the controversial incident a "curse."
Man praying calls for a rejection of "arcane doctrines," pursuit of 'luciferian impulses to eat of the tree of knowledge"
