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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Speaking of the devil and the first amendment

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Satanic displays at Christmas. Black Masses inside statehouses. Inverted pentagrams across from nativity scenes.


This isn’t art—it’s a mockery of faith, a provocation hiding behind the First Amendment. And it’s spreading. This is The Real Story.

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0:00.0

Well, today we'll be speaking to the devil. It's okay to laugh at the play on words,

0:05.2

because there sure ain't nothing else funny about today's real story. It's actually sickening.

0:10.4

Let me give you some headlines. Satanic Temple accuses Iowa officials of religious discrimination.

0:16.4

More satanic protests planned for Kansas State House.

0:28.5

Satanic Temple opens telehealth abortion clinic from Maine to secure satanic abortion ritual.

0:34.1

Those are real headlines from the past few weeks from three different states.

0:40.3

Now, this is the real test for free speech in America. The First Amendment protects all speech. It protects lies. It protects, you know, it was passed

0:46.3

not to protect convenient speech, but to protect the speech that nobody wants to hear.

0:52.3

If you're willing to stand up and fight for free speech of that which you find detestable,

0:59.7

that which you find so offensive to your sensibilities,

1:04.2

but yet you'll fight for their right to have free speech,

1:08.6

then you're really a believer in the First Amendment.

1:13.1

And that's what's happening here.

1:15.7

Let's start by talking about Iowa.

1:17.7

The Satanic Temple, Iowa, went to court because the state wouldn't let them use the Capitol

1:23.6

building for a December holiday display.

1:26.6

They knew civil rights complaint from the satanic

1:29.0

temple of Iowa. This is the group that has put up displays like that one inside the state

1:33.1

capital in the past. They said it was discrimination. Now Iowa did allow a satanic display in

1:39.0

2023. It was an inverted pentagram, poinsettas, and a statue head of a horned deity.

1:49.4

And somebody destroyed it.

1:51.5

Surprise, surprise.

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