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Lutheran minister and House candidate under fire after recounting her part in satanist couple’s wedding
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Democratic House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott’s campaign is on the defensive after a resurfaced video showed her recounting her role in the marriage of a pair of satanists while serving as a minister-in-training.
Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister running in a battleground House district in November’s midterm election, participated in the wedding of a satanist couple in 2006 while serving as an intern pastor in a West Virginia parish.
Nearly two decades later, she delivered remarks for the Des Moines Storytellers Project, where she reflected that the marriage of two satanists in the church offered a «spiritual lesson» about love.
«He asked me to pick the scriptures,» Trone Garriott said on stage in 2023, referring to the senior pastor. «Irritated, I flipped through the Bible. Should I pick something with Satan in it to make them feel more at home?»
State Sen. and candidate for Iowa’s 3rd congressional district Sarah Trone Garriott speaks during the Polk County Democrats’ spring dinner on April 7, 2026, in Des Moines. (Cody Scanlan/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
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«Eventually, I just put the bookmark in at 1 Corinthians 13,» she continued. «If you have ever been to a Christian wedding, you’ve probably heard this scripture. All they would get from me was [a] basic Lutheran wedding.»
«When the Apostle Paul wrote these words, he certainly never had in mind a small town in West Virginia, two satanists and a Lutheran pastor in training,» Trone Garriott said. «But Paul knew people, and people haven’t changed that much over the centuries. It is hard to love one another. We often need to be reminded how.»
Trone Garriott is vying to unseat Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, for a «toss-up» congressional seat in the southwestern part of the state. Throughout the campaign, she has been criticized for expressing beliefs that Republicans have argued do not align with the Christian faith she represents.
«She’s made it clear that the values Iowa families live by every single day are the ones she’s running against,» Nunn previously told Fox News Digital.
At the 2023 love-themed storytelling event, Trone Garriott chose to spotlight her «first wedding» with the satanist pair.
She recounted that the couple had shown up under the mistaken belief they had to be married in a church and proceeded to interrogate their Christian beliefs.
«These people could barely stand us. They didn’t believe in or really have any respect for what mattered to us,» Trone Garriott said.
The senior pastor went ahead and married them anyway, with Trone Garriott reading the words, «Love is patient; love is kind» over them.
Though Trone Garriott expressed initial concern about the wedding, by the end of the ceremony she spoke tenderly about the man with a pentagram tattooed on his face.
«Was he getting teary?» Trone Garriott asked during her remarks. «They had a lot of baggage between the two of them, but there was no denying how they were looking at each other.»
At no point in her speech did Trone Garriott suggest that she or the senior pastor asked the couple to reject satanism.
«So what happened to that couple? I have no idea,» Trone Garriott reflected. «We never saw them again.»
Rep. Zach Nunn, a Republican from Iowa, speaks to members of the press as he exits a Republican Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Oct. 12, 2023. (Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Asked for comment, a spokesperson for Trone Garriott’s campaign told Fox News Digital, «As a minister in training, Sarah followed the direction of her supervising pastor and had no control over who walked through the church’s doors — it was her job to minister to everyone, including people she does not share beliefs with.
«Like so many Iowa Christians, Sarah’s faith calls her to love thy neighbor, and she follows Jesus’ example of embodying his grace for everyone,» the spokesperson added.
A source familiar with the campaign disputed that Trone Garriott helped marry the satanist couple, because she was not ordained until 2008.
But Trone Garriott’s own words and actions during the ceremony appeared to acknowledge her active role in the wedding.
«This was going to be my first wedding,» Trone Garriott reflected in her remarks.
The resurfaced video comes as Trone Garriott’s beliefs have been heavily scrutinized in the contest for the swing seat.
In a 2023 speech, she expressed discomfort with public displays of Christianity and defended seeking out non-Christian prayers at the statehouse as a member of the state Senate.
Trone Garriott wrote an op-ed in 2025 calling out Christian lawmakers who protested a Wiccan-led prayer, arguing, «Jesus engaged with pagans.»
Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor and Iowa state senator, greets congregants at Grace Lutheran Church in Des Moines, Iowa on Sunday, March 15, 2026. (Krysta Fauria/AP Photo)
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The National Republican Congressional Committee, House Republicans’ campaign arm, sharply criticized Trone Garriott’s past in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«Her record shows a clear pattern of rhetoric and decisions that contradict her own faith, raising serious questions about her judgment and values,» NRCC spokeswoman Emily Tuttle said. «If she’s willing to blur those lines, Iowans can’t trust her to stand up for them.»
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¿Es o no es? Un misterioso Stradivarius reaviva una historia de saqueo nazi que llega hasta Argentina
¿Un Stradivarius robado por los nazis en Polonia reapareció a finales de marzo durante un concierto en el noreste de Francia? La experta Pascale Bernheim, que lo busca desde hace años, asegura que sí, aunque el origen del instrumento genera debate.
Este violín, fabricado por el célebre lutier italiano del Renacimiento Antonio Stradivari y desaparecido desde hace años, tiene actualmente un valor estimado en más de 10 millones de euros (más de 11,7 millones de dólares).
La experta cuenta que sus sospechas comenzaron tras leer la crónica del diario local Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace sobre una velada el 31 de marzo en el museo Unterlinden de Colmar, en el noreste de Francia, que combinaba una cata de vinos y un concierto de violín.
El violonista Emmanuel Coopey tocó varios violines distintos, entre ellos tres antiguos: uno fabricado en “1624” por el lutier Niccolò Amati, otro “del taller de Antonio Guarneri fechado en 1735″… y “uno de 1719 de Antonio Stradivari, según el artículo del diario.
“Estoy absolutamente convencida de que se trata del ‘Lauterbach’”, declara la presidenta de la asociación Musique et spoliations (Música y Expoliaciones), en referencia al violín robado en 1944 en Polonia y llamado así por uno de sus primeros propietarios.
Soldados nazis lo robaron en 1944 en el Museo Nacional de Varsovia, pero la última vez que fue visto fue a inicios de los años 1990 en Francia tras pasar años en la República Democrática Alemana, en la órbita soviética, según una investigación del diario Le Parisien.
Sólo existen nueve Stradivarius de 1719, de los cuáles dos están desaparecidos: el “Lauterbach” y otro apodado “Lautenschlager”.
Sin embargo, este último tiene una particularidad. Su tapa inferior está compuesta de dos tablas de madera, por lo que no puede ser el violín usado en Colmar, cuya parte posterior está fabricada con una sola, según la información del rotativo.
El organizador de la velada en Colmar es además el productor de conciertos de música clásica Emmanuel Jaeger, quien en 2017 se puso en contacto con la experta para investigar el origen de un violín en posesión de Jean-Christophe Graff, un lutier de Estrasburgo.
Este último pensaba que tenía un Vuillaume, de menor valor, hasta que, durante un coloquio, un reputado experto mundial, el británico Charles Beare (fallecido en 2025), le dijo: “Esto no es en absoluto un Vuillaume, es un Stradivarius y un Stradivarius del periodo más bello”, explica Pascale Bernheim.
A Graff le preocupaba tener en su posesión un violín expoliado, agrega la experta.
La especialista inició entonces sus investigaciones, identificó al propietario del “Lauterbach” antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el industrial polaco Henryk Grohman –que lo había cedido al museo polaco antes de su muerte–, y localizó incluso a descendientes suyos en Austria y en Argentina.
Pero el origen del instrumento aún está por determinar con certeza. “Que yo sepa, Beare evaluó en dos ocasiones el violín y posteriormente se sometió a un análisis dendrocronológico», método que permite determinar en particular la edad de los objetos de madera, explica Bernheim.
Ni Emmanuel Jaeger ni el lutier de Estrasburgo respondieron. El primero declaró, sin embargo, a Le Parisien que la experta se equivocaba. “No se trata del violín robado”, aseguró también el jueves en Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace.
Según el organizador de la velada, el violín cedido para el concierto por el propietario del instrumento es otro Stradivarius de 1719. “Errar es humano y puede que me equivoque”, replica Bernheim. Pero si se trata efectivamente de un Stradivarius de 1719, sin ser el Lauterbach, “en ese caso, que nos explique cuál es”.
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Blue state residents ‘fleeing in droves’ after ‘insane’ progressive takeover, says top state attorney
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A top state attorney in Democrat-controlled Maryland says he has had enough and is throwing in the towel after saying the Old Line State has suffered an «insane» «ultra-progressive» takeover.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Haven Shoemaker, state attorney for Maryland’s Carroll County, said that after decades in public service, he is «sick to death» of the policies that «emanate» from the state capital in Annapolis. He said he is especially disgusted with Maryland’s «sanctuary» policies and the high taxes he said are being levied in part to pay for more services for illegal immigrants.
«Maryland has become California on the Chesapeake,» said Shoemaker. «It only gets worse. It’s not getting better. And at some point, I just had to make a personal decision that it’s time to throw in the towel and head for what I believe are greener pastures.»
Shoemaker is not the only one. He said that he sees Marylanders giving up on the state «all the time.»
«The State of Maryland has one of the worst outward migration numbers of any state in the country right now,» he said. «So, I don’t know who’s going to be the last to foot the bill for the profligate spending that Annapolis likes to engage in, but it’s not going to be me, I can tell you that.»
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Marylanders are «fleeing in droves» under Democratic Gov. Wes Moore and the Democra-controlled State Assembly, according to Carroll County State Attorney Haven Shoemaker. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images; Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
Moore’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions. Fox News Digital also reached out to Maryland House Speaker Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk and Senate President Bill Ferguson for comment.
Born in Baltimore in the 1960s, Shoemaker spent three decades in local and state politics before taking the job as Carroll County’s top prosecutor in 2023. His career in public service includes seven years as mayor of Hampstead, Maryland, four years as a Carroll County commissioner and nine years in the Maryland House of Delegates. He rose to the role of House Minority Whip for the Maryland Republican Party.
Despite years deeply involved in state politics, Shoemaker said his decision to abandon Maryland has been a long time coming.
«I’ve been contemplating this move for a while, but the linchpin for me was this most recent legislative session where they essentially made Maryland a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants,» he told Fox News Digital.
Earlier this year, the Maryland General Assembly passed an emergency measure to ban local and state law enforcement agencies from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through what is known as the 287(g) program. Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, whose name has been floated as a possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, signed the bill into law.
While emphasizing that law enforcement would continue cooperating with ICE on deporting individuals who «pose a risk to public safety,» Moore lauded the bill, saying, «We will not allow untrained, unqualified and unaccountable agents to deputize our brave local law enforcement officers,» according to WYPR.
While signing the measure, Moore stressed his view that «Maryland is a community of immigrants,» saying, «It is not our weakness, it’s our strength.»
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Shoemaker, meanwhile, said that Maryland’s sanctuary-style policies are «just part of the problem.»
«In addition to that, their tax policy here is horrendous,» he said. He pointed to how state leaders raised taxes in Maryland last year by $1.6 billion.
The tax raise was passed by the State Assembly and approved by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore as part of a $67 billion state budget in 2025. The raise was part of a plan to address roughly a $3.3 billion budget deficit. Maryland’s budget is relatively large compared to other states, despite the state ranking 18th in population and 42nd in land size.
Shoemaker said that state leaders are «already looking at a structural deficit going into next year’s budget of another billion and a half or so.» He asserted the «handwriting is on the wall» that «Maryland politicians are beholden to their ultra-progressive base.»
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speak to members of the media outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 3, 2024. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg)
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In the end, Shoemaker said that he has finally decided to escape to the South and head for North Carolina.
«A lot of taxpayers from across the State of Maryland are fleeing in droves,» he said. He added a warning to Moore and other Maryland leaders: «If you want to staunch the bleeding that’s occurring, maybe you should rethink your policies.»
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