Iowa canceled a public event that our congregation was going to hold, which would have included a Krampus Costume Contest, on the grounds that the mythical Krampus was said to punish naughty kids— inferring that we intended to beat children.
For real.
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Iowa Claimed to Believe We Would Beat Children at a Public Krampus Event, Because It's Krampus
And the press seems willing to vaguely report the story in a way that ignores the state's implausible, outright laughable claim