Baphomet at the Arkansas Capitol.
A Ten Commandments monument was installed on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds. The Temple offered a bronze Baphomet with two children looking up at it, to stand beside it, and sued when the offer was refused. The argument is always the same: a state that admits one religious monument has admitted the category.
Arkansas installed a Ten Commandments monument on its State Capitol grounds. The Satanic Temple commissioned a bronze Baphomet — goat-headed, winged, seated, with two children looking up at it — offered it for installation alongside, and litigated when the offer was refused. The same statue had been offered to Oklahoma on the same reasoning. The argument is always the Establishment Clause and it is always the same: a state that admits one religious monument to public land has admitted the category and cannot then apply a taste test. The strategy is legible precisely because the applicant is unwelcome, and the Temple selects its campaigns on that basis. Similar reasoning drives its After School Satan Clubs, offered wherever an evangelical club already has access to a public school.
The same ground, other faiths
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