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2023 was a very bad year for The Satanic Temple in court

TST started two new lawsuits in 2023, but they lost eight existing cases and seem to have completely abandoned two others Yet again, the legal performance of The Satanic Temple was disappointing and incompetent at best, but just as likely the worse conclusion is true: it was a needless waste of much-needed resources by attention-seeking […]

December 22, 2023

Doug "Lucien Greaves" Misicko standing with open mouth saying "we suck lol" over the top part of a chart showing The Satanic Temple's legal failures as of December 2023

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Abortion, Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

Why did The Satanic Temple lose its Indiana abortion lawsuit?

TST’s failure in The Satanic Temple Inc. vs Rokita highlights how ill-equipped and deeply unserious the Temple’s owners are about confronting the Christian right, especially in a post-Dobbs world In late September 2022, TST filed two nearly identical federal lawsuits in Idaho and Indiana, once again in an ostensible attempt to establish a religious exemption […]

November 15, 2023

ourobouros with a TST logo in the middle but the head is labeled "malice" and the tail it's eating is labeled "incompetence"

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Abortion, Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

Today is a good day for The Satanic Temple to release its finances

A TikToker spent two minutes talking about why The Satanic Temple can’t help you get an abortion and doesn’t deserve your support. TST threatened to sue her. But when it comes to The Satanic Temple, there’s always more and it’s always worse. Note: As of Nov. 23, 2022, the Temple has filed a lawsuit against […]

July 25, 2022

Black and white image of a three-eyed ram, sorta a stock occult image. Overlay text: "Today is a good day for The Satanic Temple to release its finances."

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

Footnotes: The Satanic Temple in the courts

Doug Misicko and Cevin Soling on the record in court depositions and testimony The following are the available court depositions of Doug Misicko (a.k.a. “Doug Mesner”, “Lucien Greaves”) and Cevin Soling (“Calvin Soling”, “Malcolm Jarry”) in matters concerning “The Satanic Temple”, which alternatively means the for-profit United Federation of Churches, LLC, dba The Satanic Temple; […]

July 5, 2022

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Footnotes, Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

What the hell is “The Satanic Temple”? — Ep. 5: The Satanic Temple (Inc.)

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 […]

May 12, 2022

Logo for The Satanic Temple with a bag that has a dollar sign replacing the "s" in "TST". On either side are government documents about it

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The Satanic Temple, What The Hell Is The Satanic Temple?

Playing “a shell game”: Arkansas claims it needs federal court’s help to get to deepest circle of Satanic org’s finances

ACLU and state agree it’s time to get on with long-delayed 10 Commandments case that TST pushed itself into.

December 3, 2021

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple