Flying Spaghetti Monster Joins Wisconsin State Capitol Holiday Religious Display

The state that brought us Scott Walker, the Green Bay Packers, and rhb has added a new figure to their holiday display of religious iconography. All hail the glory of his noodly appendage!

The Flying Spaghetti Monster has joined the array of holiday displays at the Wisconsin state capitol.

The Monster, a symbol of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, was erected by the University of Wisconsin’s Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics.

“Think this is ridiculous? We agree! Religious ideas should not be promoted in the halls of government. Protect the separation of Church and State, it protects us all,” the display says, according to a post on the group’s website.

According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the group’s president, Sam Erickson, said the AHA “would prefer to keep our Capitol secular.”

“But if the state decides to turn it into an open forum, they have opened the floodgates,” Erickson said in a statement. “We hope everyone takes advantage of this opportunity to advertise their own viewpoints, no matter how silly.”

The Monster display joins a Christmas tree, a Festivus pole, a “natural” nativity scene and a winter solstice sign in the capitol rotunda.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.