Adam Daniels, who leads the Dakhma of Angra Mainyu church, stands next to his gargoyle, Fred, outside of his Oklahoma City home where church members meet weekly to worship. 

LAWTON, Okla.— Next week, Adam Daniels will sit down in the public library of a Southwest Oklahoma town and sign books. But his presence at the Lawton Public Library has some local residents outraged, because Daniels is a self-professed Satanic priest and a convicted sex offender.

“To hear they are having someone like that here, I’m not happy about it,” Megan Butler said, mother of three and library patron.

Daniel’s book is titled “Ahrimani Enlightenment.” He is well aware of the controversy his book is causing, but he told KSWO that there is a secondary purpose behind his visit.

“Create a tolerance and to educate people, so that when they walk away they know we are not who they say we are,” Daniels said.

Daniels is known around the state after he organized an event called the black mass of satanic rituals last year.

According to Daniels, his sex offender status stems from a relationship he developed with a 27-year-old female prisoner while working at the Mable Basset Correctional Center in McLoud, Oklahoma in 2011.

“An inappropriate relationship built up between me and a female prisoner, there was kissing and touching one night, she turned it over to IA, I cooperated with IA,” Daniels told News One.

The library will make sure one of their workers is with Daniels at all times during the signing, and they insist the event will be safe.

But that hasn’t lowered the apprehension of some library goers.

“When you’re exposing your ideas to young children and it’s not something that they should be exposed to at this time, because they are still learning and absorbing things,” Onreka Johnson, a library patron told KSWO.

This is not the first controversy over Satanic activities in public buildings in Oklahoma. In 2014, The Satanic Temple applied to have a bronze statue placed near a Ten Commandments monument on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds. The statue was of a winged Baphomet with a human body and a goat’s head.

The Temple failed in its attempts after Oklahoma lawmakers, clergy and residents came out against the statue. It was later moved to Detroit, Michigan where it was unveiled in June.

Daniels was initially a supporter of the Satanic statue being placed next to the Ten Commandments, but backed out of the project before the decision was handed down.

“Why would I want to give a small child nightmares and destroy their psyche with a monster,” Daniels told KFOR in 2014. “One of the rules in Satanism is do not harm little children.”

Despite that edict, Daniels is planning to go ahead with his book signing. Under Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the City of Lawton cannot discriminate against any patron or author.

“Yeah, it would be against the First Amendment right,” Daniels said. “If you’re going to let one, you have to let all. And if they’re going to start doing censorship, they are going to censor my book, then they definitely better be censoring the Bible because the Bible has a lot worse stuff than mine.”

According to Daniels, he grew up a Christian in Oklahoma. But was turned toward the devil after being rejected by other religions. He says “Ahrimani Enlightenment” is a how-to guide to worship the devil and how people can release their inner beast.

“Religion built around the natural human animal that allows it to express its needs, wants and desires without a religious dogma,” Daniels said.