TST members and local groups begin another mass departure as Lucien Greaves clarifies once again that the “freedom to offend” does not include him as a target 5/31/24: Article updated from original publish date as more information became available and more TST groups and prominent figures publicly exited the org. Additional events after May 31 […]

TST’s second lawsuit against four former members in Washington State rolls on in King County superior court. Now, as we were able to happily announce in January, The Satanic Temple is no longer suing us in federal court! Apparently TST decided that the Ninth Circuit requiring them to actually specify what and how they claimed […]

Federal appellate court affirms that failed cyberpiracy accusations were bogus but grants TST another chance to make defamation claim against four former members Jeremy Roller, attorney for the Defendants, told Law360: My clients are delighted that the Ninth Circuit affirmed Judge Jones’ dismissal of TST’s unfounded Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act claim. While we are disappointed […]

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.

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 […]