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Abortion The Satanic Temple

What John Oliver gets wrong about The Satanic Temple and abortion rights

“Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic” is a funny name — and a distraction from what’s actually going on with TST’s New Mexico Telehealth Clinic In the most recent episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”, he made a mention of a particular publicity stunt by a certain satanic for-profit business-cum-church. In so […]

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Church of Satan

Anton LaVey was worse than you think

A cursory look at some of the Church of Satan founder’s politics and views We often criticize The Satanic Temple, and for obvious reasons. They have been suing us for more than three years, and are at present the largest, most prominent, and most popular Satanic organization in the world. When a news org wants […]

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Community Lawyers Are Expensive Queer Pride

Hail Lucifer, The Light-Bringer: A Queer Satanic Benefit Show

Lawyers are expensive, but benefit shows are fun. “Hail Lucifer – The Light-Bringer” will be a rock show Saturday, Aug. 19, at Left Bank Books in Seattle to benefit the Queer Satanic Heretics. DETAILS BANDS Hurry Up Snufkin Dead Sonics Molotov Juicebox Other stuff We’re also working on having some local artists present, such as […]

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Abortion Lawsuits The Satanic Temple

Why did TST lose its federal abortion case in Texas?

Because The Satanic Temple is very bad at court cases. We’ve said it before, and we will no doubt have many occasions to say it again in the future. This article goes through the judge’s opinion in some depth to show why that judge is not a “doddering old fool”, as TST’s owner claimed in […]

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Ritual

Satanic Unbaptism Ritual

A collective ritual magic guide for non-theists & materialists [Zine] Unbaptism rituals can be healing especially for people who’d like to consciously and actively undo something done to them without their assent or that they were too young to really consent to. The good news is you can just do that! Sit down with each […]

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Lawsuits The Satanic Temple

In Brief: Queer Satanic answers Satanic Temple’s appeal of failed SLAPP suit

Officially: Apellees’ Answering Brief in United Federation of Churches LLC v. David Johnson et al (23-35060) Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [Brief][Supplemental Excerpts of Record] Full text below as embed and HTML TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION This case arises from a dispute between a religious organization and its former members regarding the religious […]

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Lawsuits Lawyers Are Expensive The Satanic Temple

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 […]

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Community Lawyers Are Expensive Queer Pride

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 […]

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Community Queer Pride Ritual

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 […]

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The Satanic Temple

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 […]