Time for The Satanic Temple to open Satan's Elementary School and apply for charter funding.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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This is how you kill it. I hope the TST does just that.
Or even just getting them to squabble over which Christian denomination the school will follow. Baptist? Mormons? A specific protestant denomination? Or maybe even the gasp Catholics who are swayed by the Pope! Get them to internecine fight over their flavor of God to follow and it'll break apart in no time.
It won't be killed. We've already seen them allow bibles in schools while denying every book conservatists don't want. It's a double standard that's not being enforced in the federal court level. And if you think the supreme court will block that then good luck.
Yeah, this is what’s so frustrating. The Supreme Court has been pretty clear that it will only rule in favor of religious freedom for Christians. Access to abortion is critical for Jews and Muslims for example, but that doesn’t stop them from subjecting all of us to the extreme Christian belief on the matter. They’ve even gone as far as to say that the beliefs of reform or moderate Jews don’t count as Jewish beliefs because only the orthodox count (someone smarter than me can find the SCOTUS opinion that says this, it’s real). So yeah, religious freedom for Christians, no one else.
We should all be joining The Satanic Temple at this point.
fight fire with fire
I'd send my kid to Lucifer P. Satan Memorial Elementary.
Don't worry, they'll just make an exception that only christian public schools are allowed just like they made exceptions for cis children to get gender affirming care and surgeries in their blatantly unconstitutional/genocidal trans care bans
I mean, they'll try.
Arkansas tried that but TST still got their Baphomet statue.
This should be an open-and-shut case. This school should just obviously not be funded by the public based on even a cursory reading of U.S. law.
Unfortunately, in this climate, they'll probably get double funding now.
This school should just obviously not be funded by the public based on even a cursory reading of U.S. law.
You don't even need to go to Federal Law for this. It's not legal under State Law or the State Constitution.
The approval of a publicly funded religious school is the latest in a series of actions taken by conservative-led states that include efforts to teach the Bible in public schools, and to ban books and lessons about race, sexual orientation and gender identity, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which is among several groups representing the plaintiffs in the case.
This is bullshit and whoever is trying to make this reality needs to learn about separation of church and state and ponder it while they have all influence and decision making power stripped permanently since they lack reading comprehension skills.
These people have spent decades pretending that Thomas Payne et all were good little Christian fundamentalists who thought that Christian rule was such a no brainer they just never thought any other religious group could exist, and that it is a foregone conclusion that all of law and order was divinely inspired by Judeo Christian thought and values, and didn’t exist prior, because nothing existed prior to their Stone Age fan fiction.
Can you imagine the outcry if Muslims attempted this same bullshit? What about if the satanic temple did it?
Let's try to make it happen.
I mean, fuck it, why the hell not.
“Todays lesson is about bodily autonomy and your inalienable right to exercise it!”
Hell yeah
It's all political theater.
They go in knowing they'll probably lose in court, and then get to scream about 'activist, Left wing judges.'
Actually educating children? Not their concern