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Wait, why is The Satanic Temple (still) suing you?

Because The Satanic Temple is an abusive religious organization owned by two thin-skinned men who use their organization’s collective wealth and resources to intimidate and punish critics. Jump to Okay. But why are they suing you specifically? Because one of the four co-defendants —David Johnson — criticized the two men — Doug Misicko and Cevin […]

June 23, 2023

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Lawsuits, Lawyers Are Expensive, The Satanic Temple

Queer Satanic merch available at Seattle’s Left Bank Books in Pike Place Market

Lawyers are expensive. Please continue to support our legal defense fund directly or via our offerings. If you’ve been meaning to grab a flag, patches, or stickers from us but just haven’t gotten around to it, mosey into Left Bank Books Collective, 92 Pike St, Seattle, WA, 98101, which has a lot of very cool stuff […]

June 22, 2023

"Check out Left Bank Books in Seattle for new QueerSatanic stickers, flags, & more to come!" Interior photos of bookstore with flag and sticker display

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Community, Lawyers Are Expensive, Queer Pride

Queer Satanic at Trans Pride Seattle 2023

OK, now that there’s exactly a week left, we should go ahead and announce that we’ll have our own table at Trans Pride Seattle 2023: Ten Year Anniversary! We’re partnering with Art of Kelly Dean Verity who is the veteran here in terms of setting up these sorts of things; Verity will be working live […]

June 16, 2023

Stickers, flags, zines, ??? — Queer Satanic will be at trans pride Seattle 6pm to 930pm Friday Jun 23 at volunteer park amphitheater

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Community, Queer Pride, Ritual

What’s going on with David Silverman and The Satanic Temple?

Note: A previous version of this article lacked the updates between June 9 and June 28, 2023, but also treated too credulously and authoritatively The Satanic Temple Sober Faction’s description of Doug “Lucien Greaves” Misicko reduced role in the organization when combined with Dex Desjardin’s description of Misicko as being “semi-retired”. The recap and responses […]

June 9, 2023

David Silverman @MrAtheistPants Thanks to my friend @LucienGreaves for a great tour for me and Kris @CShellska at @satanic_temple_ ! Great to see you again and thanks as always for your activism! Image Last edited 8:16 AM · Jun 5, 2023 from Everett, MA

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The Satanic Temple

Footnotes: “Why we left The Satanic Temple”

Many people have been harmed and otherwise mistreated by The Satanic Temple over the years, especially those who once considered themselves members. This is not just by the national organization in Salem, Mass., but by all of the local organizations set up to be part of the base for the pyramid structure that funnels power […]

June 8, 2023

Survivor bias plane diagram

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Community, Footnotes, Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

Cevin Soling really hates public schools

Newly discovered passages from 2014’s “The Student Resistance Handbook” by Satanic Temple co-owner Cevin “Malcolm Jarry” Soling show that using Satanic student groups to disrupt education isn’t a bug or a side effect of them; it’s the whole point When Fox News discusses The Satanic Temple’s After School Satan clubs, they are using the issue […]

June 5, 2023

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[MIRROR] Queer Armed Joy: Report Back From Vancouver’s ‘Big Gay Wedding’

Originally posted by Sabot Media and IGD News Dozens of local queers in Southwest Washington State celebrated the unofficial start of summer this year with a ‘Big Gay Wedding’, gathering from morning till afternoon on a warm holiday weekend — right outside of a Christian Nationalist hate church that preaches LGBTQ eradication. Directed and cheered […]

June 2, 2023

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Community, Guest Article, Queer Pride, Ritual

Sabot Media’s Molotov Now! Ep 6: Interview with Queer Satanic

A podcast about taking action Our friends at Sabot Media had one of us on to talk about cults and what to be looking for in jobs you work and groups you join, even on the left and even in supposedly anarchist spaces. Moreover, we’re still being sued by The Satanic Temple in state and […]

May 12, 2023

Queer Satanic's satanic antifascism logo (white inverted pentacle over a three arrows with gay pride colors) and Sabot Media's Molotov Now! header (text and in silhouette, black cat and statue of liberty throwing a lite molotov cocktail) + "Episode 6: Interview with Queer Satanic"

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Cults, Lawsuits

“Wait, why is The Satanic Temple suing you?”

A detailed look at TST’s case United Federation of Churches, LLC v. Johnson et al Timeline In 2014, a small group of people founded the Satanic Temple of Seattle; Nathan Sullivan was one of those founders. Throughout 2016 and 2017, a young but nationally prominent member of the Seattle religious organization found themself sexually harassed […]

April 22, 2023

Three people stand beside each other, each wearing black masks with a pentagram and three arrows logo. The background behind them is psychedelic.

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

Satanic Flame Ritual

A Short Guide to Private Devotional Magic for Non-Theists and Materialists [Printable Zine] Why bother? Internal focus is a powerful tool for working through problems and shedding feelings that may be holding you back, but as non-theists there is another aspect to the candle ritual. In some religions, prayer allows the faithful to soundboard inner […]

April 5, 2023

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Guest Article, Ritual