Title comes from this Bloomberg writeup by Mary Anne Pazanowski that probably is paywalled, but as you can tell, their reporter’s read was pretty negative: A panel of Ninth Circuit judges on Wednesday appeared unlikely to give the Satanic Temple another shot at suing Idaho over measures that bar it from providing abortion care to […]

Frivolous libel lawsuit latest in a series for religious org that claims to support “free speech” Update April 7, 2025: True to form, The Satanic Temple has given notice it will appeal this loss and attempt to resume the litigation against the reporter as an individual again. See below. A federal district court judge in […]

According to past filings, the Oklahoman believed he was sent by “Elohim” to “fight crybaby Satan” Sean Patrick Palmer of Perkins, Okla., is facing up two decades in federal prison after agreeing with prosecutors to plead guilty to an April 2024 hate-crime attack of The Satanic Temple’s Salem HQ with an improvised explosive. Federal investigators […]

King County judge determines TST “has no rights to or interest” to Facebook memes page the national for-profit Satanic corporation has been suing to get since 2020 Seattle, Wash. – After almost four and a half years, The Satanic Temple’s infernal litigation against four former members may finally be coming to end. On Tuesday, a […]

Salem, Mass.-based religious org TST continues legal attack begun in 2020, utilizing for-profit corporation to target four former members now in Washington State court Well, the work/case continues. This state-level lawsuit in King County Superior Court was filed simultaneous to The Satanic Temple appealing the same claims rejected from federal district court in “United Federation […]

Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by TST owner “Lucien Greaves” wrecks another legal case, this time over invocations at Chicago City Council A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by The Satanic Temple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge […]

No, it is not. Sometimes well-meaning people ask this question sincerely, but in practice, it usually feels like people raise and deploy the specter of dead-naming as a way to distract from all of the other criticisms of The Satanic Temple and its owners that are completely indefensible. As even these people acknowledge, neither of […]

Satanism is opposed child abuse, but local cops in Idaho want people to think the exact opposite Earlier this week, an Idaho county sheriff’s office published a press release to Facebook about the conclusion of a criminal investigation and prosecution of a 22-year-old man. The man pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of […]

TST’s own court filings show it is not interested in any structural reform or protections for people in the org, only protecting the Temple’s owners The Satanic Temple has been suing Newsweek since February 2022 over a critical article the magazine published in October 2021 that focused on TST’s SLAPP action against the four of […]

Court filings reveal not only does TST pay to get positive news coverage to distract from the bad, it used the same PR guy the Church did — for exactly what you think Background: The Satanic Temple started suing four former members of its Washington State chapter in April 2020, accusing us of, among other […]