Did Kerry meet with the world's leading Satanist? Snopes.com says no,
but as Joy has pointed out, it has a liberal bias...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/lavey.asp
A Man of Wealth and Taste
Claim: Photograph shows Senator John Kerry shaking hands with Anton
LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]
(Click to enlarge)
PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF: Anton La Vey, high priest of the
Church of Satan, meets with noted Attorney John Kerry at CISPES
function.
Origins: Politics often joins some strange bedfellows, but it
doesn't get much stranger than this: Senator John Kerry of
Massachusetts posing with Anton Lavey, the self-proclaimed High
Priest of the Church of Satan.
This one is easy to debunk even without knowing anything about the
origins of the photograph. Although a portion of the date in the
putative newspaper clipping is (deliberately) obscured, enough of it
shows to reveal that the article in question supposedly comes from an
edition of the San Francisco Chronicle published on a Sunday, July
17, sometime in the 1980s. Only twice in the 1980s did July 17 fall
on a Sunday, in 1983 and 1988, and the 1983 date is ruled out because
the article refers to "congressman John Kerry," but Kerry wasn't
first elected to Congress until 1984. A search of the 17 July 1988
edition of the San Francisco Chronicle turns up no such article.
This item is doubly debunkable because we do know something about the
origins of the photograph. It's a fake, a composite made from two
other images: one of John Kerry greeting clown Rami Salami in 1998,
and a picture of Anton LaVey posing with rocker Marilyn Manson in
1994:
Last updated: 28 October 2004
Received on 2004-10-28 16:33:09