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

Next, at approximately 0:51, you claim that “one of their chapter leaders being accused of sexual assault and TST kicking the victim out of the chapter.”

This is so fucking gross of The Satanic Temple to do.

We will re-share the person in their own words for you to read for yourself.

Originally, all of this was public and the person wanted everyone to know and to re-share it because their experience was so different from the idea they had of TST.

But because of a doxing and smear website created in retaliation, others also named and identified in the doxing site asked them and later us not to bring more attention to it. Due to that pushback, the person made their posts more private and asked us to redact some of it, which of course we were willing to do.

Images and then transcript of all of them after, but CW: SA discussion to follow.

September 11 ·
***TW/Content Warning: ~Thread will be Updated as Able/Advised by Detective~ Last update: Sept 30

Guess who just got banned from TST for filing a report about a member of leadership in TST raping them along with everyone that has been talking to the police. This gal!

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Edit(Sept. 12):
The Satanic Temple Austin is using the fact that they gave anyone involved on both sides the 1 year ban to justify this. Let’s be clear, this is a tactic to suppress and distance TST from the shitshow of how they handled a member of their leadership sexually assaulting me. The only person on the other side of this is the person that sexually assaulted me. They actively took actions and made decisions to keep this person in power for a LONG time after these allegations were initially brought forward. This person used their remaining time in power to spread libel in private leadership forums about me and others close to me that they saw as people who might call them out. I will share all of what was said and shared within those private groups about me and others once the criminal case has been completed. There are some difficult truths about some of my actions and decisions that were made that I am fully responsible for mixed in with the lies, but I am here to provide the honest and whole story. TST is using others like [REDACTED TST FIGURE](A close friend of this person and previous international leader that actually quit TST shortly after all of this began), saying that they are also banning them for one year though they had absolutely no involvement to make it seem like this decision is less biased.

The fact is, they are tired of the waves it has caused in the “church”, calling the “episode” toxic and that the church and I just need to “move on”. They just want to get rid of anyone that has rocked the boat by stepping forward and sweep things under the rug. I’ve included a screenshot in the comments showing this exact discussion, that they later tried to delete after others started calling them out.

Update 2:
This person is now back online and trying intimidate me. Got a call from another person involved letting me know they just posted this link:

[redacted website, for doxxing and harassing SA victim and their social network]

I’ve already contacted the detective. I’m unsure of what they plan on sharing, but I have nothing to hide and plan on sharing EVERYTHING, good and bad, once the criminal case is complete. This includes my shortcomings, which I do and will take responsibility for, including heavy alcohol & drug usage(encouraged and provided by this person). I’m far from perfect and I’m willing to put my flaws out in the open to make sure this person doesn’t hurt anyone else. As this moves forward, I’m sure lies will be mixed in with these truths about me. This is something this person has been doing since the beginning and I will address, but I will not be addressing anything until the case is completed, to ensure the case is not effected.

Update(Sept. 13):
The intimidation website timer is up and the site updated. Feel free to read over it. Looking forward to the APD reaching out to [REDACTED](Since they included their name) next week. I hate that I have to sit with misinformation out there, but I’m not going to risk negatively impacting the case to make myself look better before the case is closed. The detective was(and still is) planning on reaching out to them Monday. There are other victims outside of the two of us mentioned here, but I will not be sharing names.

16:15: I double checked with the detective if I was able to share the case number with anyone and was specifically asked not to by them. Hopefully things will progress quickly and more info will be available publicly soon.

Update(Sept. 14): The detective reached out to them this afternoon and got no answer. Left a voicemail and reaching out again tomorrow.

14:47: The detective got in touch with him and his attorney briefly. I’ve been asked not to interact or give any more updates for now. I’ll keep this post updated as I am advised and able

Update(Sept. 15): Just to be clear, I’m aware of the post being made by this person’s partner as well. All of this will be covered in time and I trust the case will show the truth moving forward. They’ve been in contact with the detective at this point so 🤷

Update(Spet. 30): Things are moving slow and I can’t provide any info to the public, but I’m still here.

12/17/2020
Things that are eating at me tonight:

I’ve been specifically wondering why none of the sex workers in TST International Council stood up for someone that was asked to step down from leadership for being involved in consentual poly and kink dynamics or at least for that being part of the conversation… Why did none of them stand up for me when I reported being raped by a member of local Austin leadership? Instead we were both slut shamed, but hey international told us they “Don’t slut shame”, so it’s fine right? I can’t even talk about this without sprinkles of angry sarcasm, no apologies for that. I don’t even have anything personal against those members of leadership, I just want to understand. Not just from them, but everyone involved on that level.

Why was I asked to go to the police(over a month after my internal report) before they would take any action against the person that did this to me, when they knew it was 90% certain I wouldn’t be able to do anything because of the time that had passed. Then, only to ban me and others they *presumed* were a part of the police case they requested that I file shortly after. Several of the people banned locally weren’t even a part of the case, but were blocked from any form of communication with leadership to ask about what was going on or even discussing this. I’m still not convinced they took any action at all against the member of leadership that I filed this report against.

I’m really frustrated and torn because I stand 1000% behind the ideals and social values that TST claims to hold. However, every step taken since all of this began their actions have shown the exact opposite of what they preach, both on a local and international level. Part of me wants to give them excuses on an international level by saying maybe I just don’t have the whole story, but realistically if they really cared they would have actually put in an effort to reach out instead of supporting the local decision of isolating me and others taking a stand with me.

I just found out recently that I’m still apparently a member of TST International, just not locally? I found this out through a friend, not anyone in leadership… so I don’t know what the situation is with that. If anyone in leadership sees this, I’d like to hear your side… I know some of y’all see my post.

1/31/21
I’m not sure I’ll ever be over the act of people I thought were my friends and community in a new area, abandoning me after coming forward about being sexually assaulted by a leader in a mutual community. They encouraged me to go to the police and then banned me when I did and told me I should just move on.

People in other TST locations keep telling me “oh, that’s just Austin chapter” when it’s brought up, but it’s not. It involved the entire international council, of which includes a member that is a sex worker whom didn’t stand up for me OR other people in a separate instance attacked for being engaged in consentual polyam relationships and slut shamed.

The ADA didn’t proceed with the case after almost a year of back and forths with me and multiple other victims of this, whom I won’t name here because I don’t have their permission. Not because of lack of belief, but because it wasn’t recorded and there weren’t any sober witnesses to what happened, so they didn’t think they could provide proof to a jury without reasonable doubt. Some of these things happened to these others YEARS ago and they reached out to me upon realizing who this person was.

I wasted almost a year of my life and this person now has a defamatory website up with my name along with several others, some of whom weren’t even involved in the case. The detective I was speaking with encouraged me to reach out to a civil attorney, but I don’t think any of us have the energy left to be going at this for years to come. Which I guess was his goal, really?

I want to post all the files and I want to share everything I know. It kills me a little every day that I can’t and I feel like he just got away with doing this to me and all these others. I just hope one day he gets held accountable and it doesn’t happen to anyone else.

One thing I keep going back to in my mind is the commentary from the Austin leadership about why this was a TST issue and not a local authority issue to begin with. The reason is one, I believe in what TST claims to stand for and didn’t want to bring negative public attention to them. Two, we ALL know how sexual assault cases go, no matter how much proof you have if you don’t have DNA evidence or a straight up recording, which obviously I didn’t. I wanted to protect the other members of the community, because this person often dated within and used dating as a way to recruit new local members. I didn’t think that would be that hard to understand, given some of the leadership at the time were assault survivors themselves.

We understand that’s a lot, and you may not have been able to get through it all, especially if you are a victim of sexual assault or harassment who has experienced similar re-traumatization after the event based on how people around you reacted.

So take a deep breath, maybe walk around for a minute, because it gets worse.

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We have never re-shared the smear website that was made to target that person who came forward about their sexual assault — which to this day is still the top search result for that person’s name.

We whited out the name of the person the site is targeting, but it may not be obvious that the people who made this smear website actually named the guy themselves before at some later point switching to “John Doe”; we are censoring his name here where they did not because The Satanic Temple is very malicious but also astoundingly incompetent.

The people behind this website accused the person you’ve already read above of lying about sexual assault for attention. The site then named them about 170 times to make sure it would be in any search results for them — by employers, people dating them in the future, anyone! — as well as naming a friend, family of that friend, and others many dozens of times, too. Of course, they always say “church” and not “The Satanic Temple”, presumably because they didn’t want it coming up in TST results.

We really don’t want to show much of this. Every time we have cause to re-visit this doxing, smear website, it is newly revolting. For anyone to think this was appropriate — even if it were in response to a false accusation of sexual assault — is abominable beyond words.

Note: We are not including the section of the smear site where they post multiple PornHub videos from the account of one of the people showing bruises on their thighs as a way to discredit them.

Dropped into a Word processor, this about 60 pages of text, images, and video, and there is so much that is so much worse.

It’s unconscionable.

(In fact, Austin police claim to clear only half of all rapes reported to them, and an audit discovered APD made arrests in just 17 percent of rape investigations total.)

That last picture really showcases how rabidly out-of-touch defenders of TST loyalists are about how “the justice system” works in practice but also structures of power more generally.

Nor is this isolated or new.

For all the women and nonbinary people celebrated for being in visible positions and leadership, who is that serving and who has the ultimate power? Read the Temple’s former national spokesperson Jex Blackmore talking about this sort of thing in 2018.

“While I was part of the organization, I witnessed male members of the organization exploit their position and influence to behave inappropriately and disrespectfully towards women. I myself experienced harassment and abuse from members who have now left the organization,” Jex Blackmore wrote then.

Rumor Solanine, a former leader from Dallas-Fort Worth then San Diego, described a similar culture among the Southern California local groups, which led to her being blamed for talking about and shunned.

It's such a shame @satanic_temple_ turned out to be so hypocritical

We all had such high hopes for them

Covering up abusive behavior from your leaders to maintain an external image is gross

Punishing the victims and rewarding the abusers is gross

TST should be ashamed

— Rumor Solanine (@RumorSolanine) May 2, 2021

Actually, an inciting incident in our own chapter in Washington State that resulted in us being hit with a SLAPP suit by TST involved a former local member who had previously been sexually harassed for months with no action. They were famous for creating an evocative look that got national and international press coverage for The Satanic Temple, and they were upset that TST kept using their image for self-promotion, even years after they left due to repeated harassment unaddressed by local leaders.

You can read more about that here and here.

Surely there are more than we know about since events like “Lupercalia” seem especially fraught and dangerous to talk about; TST was willing to sue Newsweek for libel for talking about TST’s official BDSM events and orgies, which are even laid out in the Temple’s own “Sex-Positive Guidelines“. Structurally, TST is set up as a hierarchy where you have to go through the friends of people you have complaints about, and if you have complaints about the people at the top? You’re shit-out-of-luck, especially given the sort of people at the top.

But in terms of what we are aware of, what happened to the person in Austin is on another level.

Imagine doxing someone and their nearby social circle, and then airing every bit of dirty laundry to characterize or outright call them mentally ill, attention seekers, liars, perverse sluts, etc.

Then imagine, when that’s not enough, an organization that fancies itself a church threatening to sue other women for talking about it.

The Satanic Temple claims it doesn’t have an internal culture of abuse, and it so much does not have a problem, it will claim that referencing past examples to the contrary is defamation.

Of course, read that legal threat to The Satanic HouseWife at the top again. The sneering contempt is just dripping from TST lawyer Matt Kezhaya there also says plenty on its own.

As you have first hand knowledge, TST investigated this matter and found (based on eyewitness interviews) that the “victim” falsified the allegation.

For clarity, The Satanic HouseWife was a member of the Austin TST chapter, too, which is why being forced to recant and apologize for this specific event was so sadistic of The Satanic Temple.

For the Temple, TST is always the real victim.

Bonus: TST lead counsel and longtime Redditor Matt “u/stormsmcgee” Kezhaya in law school weighing in on sexual assault believability.

“…rape often comes down to he-said-she-said, and sometimes she is lying. The idea of someone being executed because some immature girl lied about being raped is particularly offensive to me.”

OK, Matt.