"Instead, the display seeks to provoke and antagonize members of the Christian and Jewish faiths," Schimpf wrote. "As such, you (White) would have been well within your discretion to deny that display request."

Bryant said her resolution is careful not to call for the removal of the statue because it is protected by the First Amendment. But Bryant argued that she also has a right to free speech in officially expressing her distaste for it.

"First of all, the people that placed that statue are not celebrating anything, but rather building a small shrine to Satan in a public place in order to divide people and gin up reaction," Bryant said.

According the State Journal-Register's Dec. 3 story, the group's application to place the statue states the group is "a non-theistic organization, the mission of which is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will."