This is frightening to know about.
Democrat Congressional candidate Sarah Garriott, who is running for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional seat, has been exposed after a resurfaced video shows her sharing a story of how she officiated a wedding for a satanist couple.
In the video, Garriott gushes that she officiated at a satanic couple’s wedding while serving as a Lutheran minister.
Yahoo News reported more on Garriott’s resurfaced video:
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?”
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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.
Watch the moment she made the admission here:
WATCH: Iowa Democrat congressional candidate Sarah Trone Garriott — a Christian minister — gushes about officiating a Satanist wedding: https://t.co/YSmudHCdfM pic.twitter.com/V5E9bXpS1M
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 20, 2026
Here’s a reporter confronting Garriott over her past comments:
Woke Pastor Sarah Trone Garriott — running for Congress in Iowa — runs away when confronted about her history defending witchcraft and officiating a satanic wedding. pic.twitter.com/vGaiYw4WdJ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 22, 2026
Change Research reported the race is tight in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District:
Recent polling from Change Research shows Democrats are competitive in two districts, Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District and New York’s 17th Congressional District, that will be critical in determining the House majority in 2026.
In Iowa’s 3rd District, which backed Donald Trump by a small margin in 2024, a generic Democrat leads a generic Republican 45-42 and Donald Trump’s overall approval and approval on the economy are both under water.
A similar story emerges in New York’s 17th District, a district that narrowly backed Kamala Harris last year. A generic Democrat and generic Republican are tied at 44 and, here too, Trump is underwater on overall and economic approval.
Biographical information of Democratic candidates for each seat (Sarah Trone Garriott and Jennifer Konfrst in Iowa’s 3rd District and Cait Conley and Beth Davidson in New York’s 17th District) and the Republican incumbents (Zach Nunn in Iowa’s 3rd District and Mike Lawler in New York’s 17th District) were shown to voters.
ADVERTISEMENTIn Iowa’s 3rd District, both candidates lead Zach Nunn, though Sarah Trone Garriott has a wider lead. In New York’s 17th District, Lawler has a 47-42 lead on Davidson, but trails Conely 47-42.
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