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Related: About this forumSatanic leader: After-school clubs send positive message
SALEM, Mass. -- The Satanic Temple is waging religious battles along a variety of fronts nationwide, and its co-founder says it's just getting started.
The 3-year-old organization is fighting to get a nearly 9-foot, 1.5-ton statue of the goat-headed idol Baphomet placed on the Arkansas Capitol grounds as a counterpoint to a planned Ten Commandments monument.
Members have also proposed "After School Satan Clubs" in elementary schools from Oregon to Georgia where evangelical Christian "Good News Clubs" are operating.
And they've been pushing city councils from Alaska to Massachusetts to allow Satanists to give the opening prayer at public meetings just as Christian, Jewish and other religious clerics have long done.
Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/national/article111004647.html
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)I prefer witches. I like Jesus, and the Jimmy Carter one.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)He has all the best music.
stone space
(6,498 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,322 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)Using my vast psychic powers, I can forsee problems.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)jonno99
(2,620 posts)However, the point remains that while there are high-fives all around about the "cleverness" of the ASS Club, I simply find it amusing - as in the end no one will care, and it is doubtful that any kids will actually attend - for long...