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Queer Satanic (Target of TST's federal SLAPP suit)

@QueerSatanic

16 Nov

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Missed this one; h/t to @cwdefllc

The Satanic Temple (Inc) recently filed an amicus brief in support of St. Michaels Media Inc, otherwise known as "Church Militant"

wonder who that might be

@boboradoan, then with @freep, please tell us

freep.com/story/news/loc…

oh neat

Now, given all the things there are to do in the world, why would The Satanic Temple give one of its limited number of fucks on something like this?

Wouldn't you know it, Church Militant is represented by none other than lil ol' "free speech* lover" Marc Randazza

https://twitter.com/QueerSatanic/status/1443880865273053186

Have we written about Marc Randazza before? We have.

The most famous example of The Satanic Temple's collaboration with him was 2018, leading to the Great Schism that saw TST's most prominent local groups walk away then

https://twitter.com/QueerSatanic/status/1443880865273053186

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Queer Satanic (Target of TST's federal SLAPP suit)

@QueerSatanic

15 Nov

There is a common atheist aphorism about how evil people will do evil for any reason but good people will only do evil in the name of their religion.

But this is doubly nonsense.

Most fundamentally, people aren’t essentially good or evil; we’re people.

We are not so important as to have a soul with its own character. We fit into systems and act; then we are what we do repeatedly

However, it’s also ridiculous to think that a good person only behave badly, evily, harmfully in the name of religion

The atheist jailer still swings his club just as hard; the agnostic social worker still tears children from their parents. The Satanist grifter…

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Queer Satanic (Target of TST's federal SLAPP suit)

@QueerSatanic

31 Aug

https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/1432461859215511558

The Satanic Temple continues to fundraise tens of thousands of dollars on the questionable idea that, one of these days, they'll actually win a case

But their federal lawsuit involving Planned Parenthood in Texas is especially egregious given the path it would need to take

https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/1432461859215511558

Where that money is actually going, who can say?

Certainly TST has their finances set up well enough that it's completely opaque except by court order

(In which case, adding themselves on as intervenors in the ACLU's suit in Arkansas may end up being their worst decision yet)

Years of saying, "Look, we know how to effectively protest to get things done. We're doing the serious, practical work that effects change"

There's no evidence they have the best lawyers for the job, the best strategy, or select the best test cases

But that may not even matter

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Queer Satanic (Target of TST's federal SLAPP suit)

@QueerSatanic

7 Jul

We're still being sued by #TheSatanicTemple in federal court.

This is something a lot of people don't know b/c TST has not considered it worth including on their website or newsletter roundups yet

But some members have found out or know about other history of at least one of the founders.

Still, they've decided not to care.

This is a meme seen in the wild after it was shared by an apologist of The Satanic Temple. Let's take a look at it in more detail.

We have an image of scale. On the left side, heavier, decades reactionary Christianity: sexually abusive preachers & priests, the Catholic Church & its history with Nazism, "The Base", and a reference to reactionary Christians' awful legislative work at home & abroad

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Queer Satanic (Target of TST's federal SLAPP suit)

@QueerSatanic

3 Jun

recently had a chance to look again at The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC, a lawsuit filed over TST submitting a design to a billboard company, being told "no", and suing about it before quietly ending the case months later

caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/…

originally, it was quite loud. TST sent a press release out about it back in September 2020, and what do you know, the AP even picked it up

-prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
-apnews.com/article/arkans…

the news just reports whatever TST says happened b/c TST are the ones with the news release & with the complaint filed - a complaint that has nothing to do with the merits yet, of course

so TST claims religious discrimination & breach of contract
satanic.wiki/images/8/8e/04…

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