These are also two people — #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko — who are politically completely opposed to what their popular support imagines them to be.

These are not trolls who are owning Christian Nationalists by exposing their hypocrisy; in fact, The Satanic Temple's two owners unironically want many of the same things as white nationalist reactionaries, such as completely undermining public schools:

https://queersatanic.com/cevin-soling-really-hates-public-schools

@SapphicSelene There are a lot of great people within The Satanic Temple who legitimately are trying to do good work.

Unfortunately, they are wasting their energy and resources supporting a structure designed to extract their labor and funds for the benefit of the two owners #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko, who are just awful people.

https://queersatanic.com/lucien-greaves-and-the-satanic-temple-have-a-lot-to-answer-for/

https://queersatanic.com/cevin-soling-really-hates-public-schools/

https://queersatanic.com/the-cevin-who-would-be-king/

There is a massive overlap between the kind of person who is most threatened by #ChristianNationalism, and the kind of person whom The Satanic Temple would declare it a matter of practicality to threaten into silence for having been disillusioned or victimized by TST locally.

And when you understand that #TheSatanicTemple is designed, on purpose, to only benefit two people — two dipshit Boomers with a history of reactionary, extractive politics — you understand why that overlap isn’t a coincidence, and why the culture that results is only going to hurt more people.

#CevinSoling #DougMisicko

=WHAT THE HELL IS "THE SATANIC TEMPLE"?=

So, if that's what The Satanic Temple is *not*, well, what is TST really?

As of 2022, TST is a collection of at least six corporations, four for-profit and two non-profit, with only one of those being a tax-exempt church.

The Temple and its two owners, #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko, describe that church in contradictory ways depending on the venue and most expedient excuse at that moment.

But in March 2012 when the web domains TheSatanicTemple .com and .org, were registered, TST was just a twinkle in the eye of Cevin "#MalcolmJarry" Soling as he imagined a prank documentary about "the nicest Satanic Cult in the world".

Along with friend and collaborator David "Nicholas Crowe" Guinan, Soling used his own company Spectacle Films, Inc. to begin producing this "nice Satanists" movie with the first stunt a public prayer event in Tallahassee, Fla., in January 2013.

Soling had brought his friend Doug Misicko (a.k.a. "#DougMesner"), a self-identified Satanist, in on the project to be an expert and add verisimilitude.

Originally intended to be a role shared by Guinan, Soling, and Misicko, it was Misicko who would eventually step into the "#LucienGreaves" role full time after the first actor—and stunt— flopped.

Through 2013, #TheSatanicTemple muddled through a number of different stunts and contrary postures from "Adopt-a-Highway" to Misicko "teabagging" the grave of the Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps' mother, which got coverage from Vice, HuffPo, and others as a "#PinkMass"

Finally, at the end of the year, Guinan, Misicko, and Soling landed on the stunt that would bring them to lasting national prominence: the promise that they would install their own Baphomet statue opposite a public monument to the 10 Commandments in Oklahoma.

Tens of thousands of dollars in donations followed; the fact that TST never actually sued anyone and the ACLU won the case without any help from the Temple mattered not at all.

The Satanic Temple also made sure that this specific statue design was officially TST's intellectual property and a registered trademark they could sue over.

The Satanic Temple made sure their statue got them into lots of headlines and proceeded to fundraise off of the idea they could counter Christian monuments with the threat of their own statue arriving to guarantee religious plurality was preserved; more money poured in.

In reality, as the prank doc drifted into a project with no end date, #DavidGuinan eventually left it.

Cevin Soling and Doug Misicko embarked together on creating first a for-profit corporation (United Federation of Churches, LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple) then a 501c3 nonprofit (Reason Alliance Ltd.).

Soling would then create another for-profit he solely owned (64 Bridge LLC d/b/a "Salem Art Gallery") to house the statue and charge $8-$12 tickets to come take pictures with it.

You see them on social media all the time, and that's why.

In November 2020, as part of the official depositions for a lawsuit against the city of Belle Plaine, Minn., TST revealed that these ticket sales had since July 2017 brought in at least $182,000.

And that came *after* Misicko got caught lying about an invoice that revealed just how much fundraiser money Misicko had paid himself for the Belle Plaine stunt.

https://queersatanic.com/this-invoice-reveals-the-inner-workings-of-the-satanic-temples-finances/

We say often, "Today is a good day for The Satanic Temple to release its finances."

Because, well, #DougMisicko and #CevinSoling do *shady shit* with their finances.

https://queersatanic.com/today-is-a-good-day-for-the-satanic-temple-to-release-its-finances/5

But sometimes TSTers say the Temple shouldn't release their finances for review if the Christian orgs aren't going to.

#TheSatanicTemple's co-owner and chief spokesperson #DougMisicko a.k.a. #LucienGreaves made an announcement about interviewing TST's lawyer #MattKezhaya in regards to how their (failed, sanction-worthy) #BellePlaine lawsuit was progressing

https://nitter.net/LucienGreaves/status/1607951043416965120#m

Well, all of Friday came and went, and that was #TheSatanicTemple’s deadline to answer us.

Then the weekend and all of Monday came and went with no filing or explanation.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

#TST lead counsel #MattKezhaya needed to explain to the judge why he decided to file his preliminary injunction about a Facebook page 2.5 years after the lawsuit started and half a year after being informed that we had in writing and on video assurances the Temple wouldn’t seek that Facebook page.

Kezhaya really needed to make an explanation to the federal judge why the for-profit company that TST owners #DougMisicko and #CevinSoling were suing four former local TST chapter members with wasn’t just using its significant resources to be vexatious litigants in pursuit of a #SLAPP lawsuit.

But the deadline came and went.

by the way, if you're wondering why it is that we speak so openly and caustically about The #SatanicTemple, and its co-owners #DougMisicko a.k.a. "#LucienGreaves" and #CevinSoling a.k.a. "#MalcolmJarry", knowing how litigious they are it's because they already tried and failed to hit us with that—twice

The four members of @QueerSatanic currently being dragged thru litigation for 2.5 years and counting as part of a #SLAPP suit keep beating their asses in court because they are as incompetent as they are malicious

https://www.socialactuality.com/post/schism-the-satanic-temple-a-lawsuit-and-the-necessity-of-clear-minded-settlement

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/20/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

And nothing seems to piss off bullies more than when they take their best shot and you're still standing.

be gay, do crime, and #HailSatan

by the way, if you're wondering why it is that we speak so openly and caustically about The #SatanicTemple, and its co-owners #DougMisicko a.k.a. "#LucienGreaves" and #CevinSoling a.k.a. "#MalcolmJarry", knowing how litigious they are it's because they already tried and failed to hit us with that—twice

The four members of @QueerSatanic currently being sued for 2.5 years and counting keep beating their asses in court because they are as incompetent as they are malicious

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/20/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

And nothing seems to piss off bullies more than when they take their best shot and you're still standing.

be gay, do crime, and #HailSatan

by the way, if you're wondering why it is that we speak so openly and caustically about #TheSatanic Temple, and its co-owners #DougMisicko a.k.a. "#LucienGreaves" and #CevinSoling a.k.a. "#MalcolmJarry", knowing how litigious they are it's because they already tried and failed to hit us with that—twice

The four members of @QueerSatanic currently being sued for 2.5 years and counting keep beating their asses in court because they are as incompetent as they are malicious

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/20/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

And nothing seems to piss off bullies more than when they take their best shot and you're still standing.

be gay, do crime, and #HailSatan

Is #TheSatanicTemple a business cult?

Many people are asking questions, and this is not helped by #TST constantly referring to itself as a business in court documents (even when suing as its tax-exempt church)

https://queersatanic.com/what-the-hell-is-the-satanic-temple-ep-5-the-satanic-temple-inc/

Just fucking incredible. #Journalism loves the idea of #Satanism as dark and evil or "good, actually"; but this banal abusive shit, for some reason reporters generally have no time for.

By the way, there is approximately 0 chance that TST co-owners #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko have any interest in fully opening their books up to inspection during discovery. None.

#DougMisicko, the co-owner of #TST and the face of the org as #LucienGreaves, always characterizes himself as a classical liberal who just cares about #FreeSpeech most of all. That's why TST is constantly siding with and materially supporting fascists, they say.

Well, this is what their free speech looks like.

Note also how these people who whine about getting dox'd when they get caught using undeclared pseudonyms on legal documents turn around and go out of their way to put every single bit of identifying info about their legal targets into the public record as possible.

These fucking ghouls.

It has cost us $100,000 now to defend ourselves from #DougMisicko's and #CevinSoling's punitive lawsuit,
https://queersatanic.com/the-costs-of-defending-yourself-from-the-satanic-temple/

We have suffered harassment and our loved ones have been stalked by people apparently paid to do it, likely paid out of donations people think are helping fight for abortion access.

If you want to know more, we have tried hard to make it easier to read and understand for everyone:
https://campsite.bio/queersatanic

But know this: this is not a fight between equals. This is not a matter of "drama", and whatever problems you have with our "tone" or our "tactics" or think we "fucked around" and now are "finding out", just remember that #TheSatanicTemple will not stop with — because they haven't.

We were not the first people TST threatened to sue, and since we've stood tall, they also have sued Newsweek, it's reporter as an individual, and now this woman who made a video on TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@thesatanichousewife/video/7094299391112138030

#TheSatanicTemple #Satanism #eugenics #LucienGreaves #DougMesner #DougMisicko #MightIsRight