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Mar 30 • 29 tweets • 15 min read
The Satanic Temple is dipping back into the well by doing abortion fundraising off of Texas again.

But TST's latest cash-grab email points to two big problems: the Temple's continued legal incompetence and their lack of financial transparency
🧵 on the offensive fundraiser but it has three arrows logos ov
First of all, wow, The Satanic Temple has a lot of active legal cases, and it is very difficult to keep track of the ones they don't announce and don't do in federal court.

This was the *third* case TST filed in just February 2022, making 8.5 going on currently.

Which is a lot.
To review, on Feb. 16, 2022, The Satanic Temple filed their bonkers lawsuit against @Newsweek and reporter @JuliaDuin claiming—for once—not to be famous but rather a "private figure" (also that stating our legal costs defamed TST)
queersatanic.com/the-costs-of-d…

We've covered how The Satanic Temple came back for a second bite at the apple in their case about Lamar Advertising turning down TST's billboards claiming to help pregnant people avert state restrictions on abortion

TST filed in federal court the 2nd time
Well, a *year ago* The Satanic Temple filed a federal court case against TX over abortion (we'll start calling it "Ann Doe I")

Half the complaints are already dismissed; the district court judge stayed it till after the Supreme Court ends Roe this summer
*Now* The Satanic Temple is back, and as you saw up top, they're framing this as staying "on the offensive" and that they're going to "continue to make progress"

They want $150K for this purpose
manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/…

But their claims do not hold up under scrutiny. The Satanic Temple is fighting unjust laws that hinder our m
The first one is big but not at all obvious

"The Satanic Temple v. Texas" is just what they are calling it. That's not an official case name.

Blue refs the federal lawsuit. Here's the docket:
courtlistener.com/docket/5918201…

But pink links to this complaint
clients.web-wolf.xyz/tst-pdf/2022-0… Our Actions - The Satanic Temple v. Texas On behalf of A
You may just think we're being pedantic, but The Satanic Temple's fundraising email starts out talking about a federal court case that references abortion and has had its Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (TRFRA) ALREADY claim dismissed
The Satanic Temple's latest fundraising email—without warning—then links to a new case's complaint in Texas state district court

If you are a naive fan, you probably don't notice these are two different things at all, and in complaints, TST just gets to make shit up, basically screenshot of US District Court of Southern District of TexaTravis County District Clerk record of 459th District Court
And you saw, The Satanic Temple is back asking for the big, round # $150,000 despite not actually having accomplished anything with the (minimum) $300,000 they fundraised in 2021 for the purpose of abortion access in Texas

TST is not liberal magic, folks!
They have never stated any specific use of those funds, and they have never explained (or proved) how they spent that money.

(Ya know, like with invoices or something)

That's b/c The Satanic Temple cannot help you get an abortion
reddit.com/user/QueerSata…

Among other things, The Satanic Temple is fundamentally flawed b/c it is ineffective at what it promises to do & opaque in regards to its finances

It's not just the first Ann Doe lawsuit, either

TST is bad at court cases in general, and abortion? Oof.
the.satanic.wiki/index.php?titl… TST court cases from link showing abortion stayedTST court cases showing three abortion cases that failed
#TheSatanicTemple is suing Texas here b/c the supposed powers it promises members failed *yet again* when tested

Lamar Advertising denied TST's billboard ideas all the way back in fall 2020 on these exact grounds: TST was making a bullshit factual claim
This Travis County suit (The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al ?) may be even worse than usual, actually

TST filed "Ann Doe II" about a year after the first

In other words, long after Ann already got her abortion by means other than TST's ritual
the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a2/D-… Front page of The Satanic Temple's state-lawsuit complaint
Why does that matter?

If you notice from the cases list above, *Mary* Doe's state case proceeded thru Missouri's state courts (& failed) but judges dismissed the federal Mary suit b/c she lacked standing

Because when TST filed, she was no longer pregnant
courtlistener.com/docket/7760360… Here, Mary Doe was not pregnant at the date the action wasin
Will that matter here? Maybe not. #LegalTwitter might be able to explain why it's different to the facts of Texas state district court rather than US federal court

But the assumption should not be that The Satanic Temple knows what it's doing to win cases. Just the opposite.
#TheSatanicTemple is suing a LOT of people right now

Hi, yes we're one. Then @Newsweek & @LamarOOH.

But they're also in a *mess* in Arkansas relating to the ACLU's 10 Commandments case. They recently filed a giant appeal for their bungled Belle Plaine, + Boston over invocations
We said, "8.5 cases" up above b/c The Satanic Temple is appealing a case against Belle Plaine they lost so badly at the district court level, they had to pay the city's fees on a second concurrent case TST filed

They're appealing now, spending more money
the.satanic.wiki/index.php?titl…
Then there are all the unknown other cases that The Satanic Temple's owners have decided are worth spending TST resources on, like writing amicus briefs for fellow Marc Randazza client, abortion-hating Church Militant
queersatanic.com/devils-advocat…

TST didn't send an email for that one
*If* you believe that this $$$ is going to legal cases at all and NOT sloshing around somewhere else in the "constellation of affiliate entities" helping @LucienGreaves stay afloat or whatever—what do you point to to demonstrate $ is going to abortions?

The Satanic Temple has lost lots of court cases & arent doing well in the federal abortion case they started in Texas's before SB8 & bounty bill got going that allowed them to get enormous attention

TST is very good at getting attention, but winning in court is hard, boring work
On March 7, Texas answered The Satanic Temple
the.satanic.wiki/images/1/12/D-…

TST is being represented by Brad Ryynanen in addition to their in-house lawyer Matthew Kezhaya.

Those devoted to the Temple believe they will succeed. But the rest of us deserve a bit more to go on than faith
We're not lawyers, but it not obvious to us what's supposed to have changed for The Satanic Temple to believe they can take advantage of a Religious Freedom Restoration Act since 2019

The (majority Democratic-appointee) Missouri State Supreme Court said:
web.archive.org/web/2021082704… IV. MS. DOE FAILED TO ALLEGE A VIOLATION OF THE RELIGIOUS FRdoes not discriminate against religion, or among religions;
But the concurring opinion in this unanimous decision is also telling:
> If the mere coincidence of law and religious belief violates the Establishment Clause, then innumerable ...proscriptions against murder, theft, and other destructive behaviors are also unconstitutional Doe argues § 188.027.1(2), RSMo Supp. 2014, is an unconstitreligious belief because they coincide with some religious b
One of the things defenders of The Satanic Temple will say when you point out how poor their performance in court is is that they "lost on a technicality"

Which sometimes is true! Sometimes they just don't have standing.

But TST has been heard out, and they straight up lost
The other argument you'll hear, including by The Satanic Temple's lawyer Matt Kezhaya himself, is that Satanists just can't get a fair shake in court

Maybe that's true too! When you are known for tea-bagging a gravestone & trolling people, you don't get the benefit of the doubt. Temple Attorney Matthew Kezhaya argued that then-acting City
However, The Satanic Temple needs to pick an argument b/c they fundraise off of the idea that traditional methods have failed and they have unique abilities.

The excuses only come along when TST loses.
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Another addendum: @TEAFund releases much more detailed financials than this b/c they’re a normal, legit 501c3
teafund.org/wp-content/upl…

But have you ever seen The Satanic Temple do something even this basic?

Think if TEA Fund had had $300K more to spend to actually help folk. Graph showing how TEA Fund spent $600K helping 1460 people g

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We sometimes encourage little acts of rebellion—not ringing up all of your items at self-checkout; scribbling little vandalisms sitting at the bus stop; waiting to shit till you're on the clock and then without hurry.

These are not going to save or change the world.
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Can you guess what TST really did tho?
manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/… Happy New Year! As we reflect on 2021, we are encouraged by
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