Queer Satanic
The Satanic Temple has described itself in a variety of ways over the years, some of them contradictory. However, since 2019, it would be fair to say that the Temple most commonly has described itself as a “famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization“, and this is how TST wants people to think of them. What they’re […]
[Printable zine] When members of The Satanic Temple see criticism of them and their failed efforts in the name of abortion rights, they often say, “Well, at least they’re doing something.” Yes, what they’re doing is actively making things worse and making money off of it. “The Satanic Temple is not going to save you.” […]
Two-thirds of donation money for Satanic veterans’ memorial in Belle Plaine remains largely unaccounted for, federal court documents reveal “If you gave $1,000 to The Satanic Temple, how would you know where it ended up?” As we’ve talked about before, that is a much more complicated question than most people realize, but we recently got […]
TST takes advantage of structural biases of journalists and anti-partisanship in social media to get a reaction without having to do anything more
ACLU and state agree it’s time to get on with long-delayed 10 Commandments case that TST pushed itself into.
The Satanic Temple chooses to support anti-gay, ultra-conservative Catholic group in court battle
Last week, reporter Julia Duin filed her story that involved interviewing us about being sued by The Satanic Temple in federal court and some of the other complaints from previous members about TST’s pattern of behavior.
More than a year passes between TST’s first public event in Florida and for-profit company United Federation of Churches LLC incorporating in Massachusetts in February 2014, so figuring out when “The Satanic Temple” came to exist as it’s understood today is a bit tricky, partially overlapping with the Spectacle Films-project era but evidently preceding even that.
For a long time, it’s been known that The Satanic Temple’s co-owner Lucien Greaves once went on an antisemitic rant about how the Nazis ruined the word antisemitism for everyone and that it was “OK to hate Jews” so long as you were hating observant Jews. He was on a 24-hour radio show celebrating and […]