Federal judge rules Pennsylvania school district must allow After School Satan Club

[In It to Win It]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-rules-pennsylvania-school-174303209.html

A school district in Pennsylvania must allow students to convene an After School Satan Club, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

“In a victory for free speech and religious freedom, a federal court has ruled that the Saucon Valley School District must allow the After School Satan Club to meet in district facilities,” the ACLU announced.

In a Monday filing, issued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and shared by the ACLU, a judge found that “here, although The Satanic Temple, Inc.’s objectors may challenge the sanctity of this controversially named organization, the sanctity of the First Amendment’s protections must prevail.”

The school district must allow the After School Satan Club, which is sponsored by The Satanic Temple, to meet during the school year on three previously agreed-upon dates, but it won’t have to distribute permission slips for the club for students to take home, according to the filing.

[FSogol]

1. Sounds boring. What do they do, play Beatles records backwards & fiddle with Ouji Boards?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Who is surprised by this?

The First Amendment does not discriminate among religions

[jimfields33]

3. Good for them. What an interesting group. The future leaders?

[bucolic_frolic]

4. So far Republicans can't control your mind, but they can control your body

[LiberalFighter]

5. Personally I don't think there should be any religous clubs in schools.

If they want religion go to their church and participate in the groups they have.

[Chainfire]

7. Neither do I believe that public schools should be supporting religions, but don't you think

that this is a reaction to some sort of after school Christian program? That is something that I would have joined in high school, just to piss the elders off.

[SCantiGOP]

6. Wait until they start hearing about

Their long-sought after school vouchers going to Muslim and Satanic schools.

[obamanut2012]

8. Good -- I'm a member of TST

They do good advocacy and court challenges.

Good for these kids.

[Darwins_Retriever]

9. Then explain to the others in what the Satanic Temple believes

It isn't Satan. They are actually atheists.

[Darwins_Retriever]

10. Its 7 tenets

The Satanic Temple has seven fundamental tenets:

1. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

2. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

3. One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.

4. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.

5. Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.

6 People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

7. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

[SYFROYH]

11. Hail Satan.