Conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk announced Thursday that TPUSA pledged $10,000 to the legal defense of the Christian veteran who is charged with beheading a Satanic idol on display at the Iowa State Capitol.
“Michael Cassidy just beheaded a monument to Satan inside the Iowa State Capitol building,” Kirk posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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“The Satanic Temple of Iowa is pressing charges and Cassidy is facing fourth-degree criminal mischief. Turning Point USA is proud to pledge $10,000 to his legal defense fund. We stand with Satan Slayer @VoteCassidy.”
Michael Cassidy just beheaded a monument to Satan inside the Iowa State Capitol building. The Satanic Temple of Iowa is pressing charges and Cassidy is facing fourth-degree criminal mischief.
Turning Point USA is proud to pledge $10,000 to his legal defense fund.
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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 14, 2023
Cassidy, a 35-year-old former Congressional candidate and Naval Reserve pilot, made headlines Thursday when he knocked over and decapitated the statue of the pagan idol Baphomet.
The display had been placed in the state capitol by members of the Satanic Temple of Iowa, who said Cassidy had left it “destroyed beyond repair.”
Cassidy destroyed the altar because he said he wanted to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government,” according to a report.
“The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” Cassidy said.
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“Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water.”
After he allegedly destroyed the Satanic idol, Cassidy turned himself into the police, and he was charged with charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief, which could carry one year in prison and a $2,560 fine.
