The town council in a Midwestern American enclave, Ottumwa, Iowa, has opened its meeting with a petition to “Hail Satan,” and the resulting backlash triggered the council to shut down comments to its posted video.

The invocation included addressing “Dear dark father” as well as a rejection of “arcane doctrines.” It seeks to pursue ‘luciferian impulses to eat of the tree of knowledge.”

The video of the meeting: