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Satanic Council debates required invocation

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The Phoenix Satanic Council debated Wednesday whether non-Satanist Phoenix City Council members should be able to give the Satanic sacrifice invocation at the beginning of every meeting.

Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio, a proud Christian, requested to give the invocation, but faced efforts from within the Satanic Council to block his request.

DiCiccio responded by threatening to sue the Satanic Council for religious discrimination.

The Phoenix Satanic Council chambers were filled with many concerned residents who were concerned and angry about the moment of silence, which, according to Wanda Baphomet, “forces their minority beliefs on the majority of good upstanding Satanists.”

Baphomet, a longtime Satanic resident of Phoenix, brought her children to the meeting to emphasize the importance of maintaining traditional Satanic family values. Weeping profusely, she pleaded with Satanic Council members to consider the implications of allowing an outsider to impose his radical views on the tight-knit, devout community.

Gordon Abaddon, the high priest of Satan’s holy temple in North Phoenix, brought many of his devoted followers to protest the non-Satanist sacrifice invocation.

“These people are the equivalent to terrorists. They corrupt our children and are the reason this country is in the place it is today,” Abaddon said.

Abaddon is also the former President of the Satanic Broadcasting Network, based in the seventh ring of hell. He has lobbied for years to fight the “ongoing oppression of the silent majority.”

“There is a war on Satanism in this country,” Abaddon said. “Pretty soon, you’re not gonna be able to put a pitchfork on your lawn during All Hallow’s Eve without the PC police calling you out for it.”

District 666 Satanic Councilwoman Mary Banshee proposed that all Satanic sacrifice invocations be replaced by a moment of silence.

District 13 Satanic Councilman Joseph Baal said he rebuked the council members who opposed DiCiccio’s request, and that they posed a danger to the very fabric of Satanic culture.

“These people are pure evil. Their only purpose in performing the sacrifice invocation is to mock our long-held, traditional beliefs, which this Satanic nation was founded on,” Baal said. “If we give them a moment of silence, they will surely slaughter us and drink the blood of our children.”

Baal said that any Satanic Council member who supported allowing DiCiccio the ability to give the invocation was just trying to push the Christian agenda.

“If we allow them to speak their blasphemous rhetoric now, what’s next?” Baal said. “I’ll tell you what’s next: They will start putting subliminal messaging in our children’s music and television.”

Not all residents were opposed to allowing the City Council members to speak, Styx Valley resident Amelia Abacus said.

“Don’t any of you realize that the first tenant of Satanism is that one should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason?” Abacus said. “We are called to respect and love others; we should embrace our differences.”

Though most began booing, several members of the crowd cheered in support of Abacus.

“I’m sure that if the situation was flipped, Mr. Diciccio would surely support us giving prayer invocations at their City Council meetings,” Abacus said.

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Local rapper Wiz Magica’s album protested for derogatory use of the word ‘witch’ in lyrics

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Wiz Magica, whose new album “good kid, w.I.T.C.h. City” is expected to debut at the top of the music charts, has been protested by Witches Against Rap Music for his lyrics. (Willow Rosenburg/PD)

Witches Against Rap Music, a movement against the derogatory use of the word “witch” in hip-hop, is protesting the release of an album in Phoenix. Local rapper Wiz Magica’s “good kid, w.I.T.C.h. City” is expected to debut at the top of the Mageboard 100 Music Charts.

“w.I.T.C.h. City” is Magica’s third release. Magica’s first two albums, “Section.666” and “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Wizardry” earned the rapper over $2 million in sales and fans around the world. Liliac Blue, WARM president, is not among them.

“It’s not just about the way he (Magica) says ‘witch,’” Blue said. “It’s about my rights as a human being, magical or otherwise. It’s about being able to walk to my broom at night. It’s about not accepting that you’re a – as Magica likes to call us – ‘second-string witch.’”

Magica has long been known for the controversial themes and language in his music. In 2011, his “Twisted Wizardry” album release had similar, but smaller protests. The album set first week sales records and received a 10.0/10 from popular music site “Witchfork,” also known as “W4k.” W4k founder Devin Skweeber noted in his review that listeners must often look past Magica’s lyrics and focus on his musical merit.

“There’s no doubt that Magica needs to grow up,” Skweeber wrote in the October 2011 article. “Phrases like ‘a witchy wizard, that’s that spell I don’t like’ aren’t acceptable in today’s day and age. However, the very passion that leads to Magica’s enormous beats is the same passion that fuels his language.”

Protestors at the WARM event in Civic Space Park chanted and held signs for more than two hours. Signs were mostly plays on Magica’s anti-witch lyrics, with phrases like “I’ve got 99 problems and your language is one,” and “#MadWitchAlert” being commonplace.

Magica acknowledged the protestors during his press conference at the album release. He didn’t have much of a choice – most of the questions reporters wanted answered were about his controversial lyrical content.

“Man, I don’t hate witches,” Magica said. “I’m not saying they belong at the cauldron or anything like that. I even say it on the album – on ‘Spell 2’ – I can’t get enough of witches.”

Even the allegedly positive “Spell 2” lyric that Magica referenced received attention from the crowd. In a song dedicated to his fiancé, Get Morecashian, Magica asks the listener “have you ever asked your witch for other witches?”

Blue answered the question with a resounding “no.”

“I’m not here to challenge an alternative lifestyle,” Blue said to the crowd of protesters. “But loyalty and trust stay important, even in a telepathic relationship. In fact, we should be asking ‘Have you ever asked your rapper for other rappers?’”

The one subject that Blue refused to touch on was one Magica seemed most excited to talk about. “Broom Ridin’,” the third single off of “w.I.T.C.h. City” featured known spellcaster and implied witch advocate Lana the Grey. The song’s chorus has resulted in backlash for both Magica and the Grey.

“Catch me ridin’ like a witch,” Magica raps. “Got my broomstick high, catch me ridin’ with my witch, uh. Long hair. Lana, that’s my witch, uh. You can tell by the magic and the lips, uh.”

Blue would not comment on the Grey’s work with Magica. As the album release came to a close, Blue rallied the protestors as they left on their broomsticks. Blue’s rallying cry remained what it had been all night – a reversal of Magica’s own words from his new album.

“One witch is worth a thousand good girls!”

“good kid, w.I.T.C.h. City” will be released by Mage Nation Records next week. The WARM movement is expected to follow Magica on his nationwide tour this autumn.