Conservative leaders in Iowa downplay the significance of a Baphomet display, causing a heated debate. Republican governor Kim Reynolds' response only adds fuel to the fire. Evangelical pastor Jon Dunwell faces backlash for supporting Reynolds. Military veteran Michael Cassidy destroys the pagan display.
In Iowa , where conservatives have been consolidating their political power, Republican leaders seemed inclined to act as if the Baphomet display was not a big deal—a symbolic protest , at most, in a state that they run. Iowa ’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds , said, “In a free society , the best response to objectionable speech is more speech,” but that seemed only to fan the flames.
Jon Dunwell, an Iowa legislator and evangelical pastor, had tweeted support for Reynolds’s position, then watched as his tweet accumulated five million views and thousands of denunciations. “So I feel like I am one of the most hated pastors in all of America right now,” Dunwell told me when we met, on December 14th, on the second floor of the capitol. “People would say to me, ‘Forget the Constitution, it’s a dead document. You’re a Christian first.’ ” A few hours earlier, a thirty-five-year-old military veteran named Michael Cassidy, who was the runner-up in a congressional primary in Mississippi, in 2022, had driven to Des Moines, located the pagan display, and destroyed i
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