Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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is a threat to the earnest pursuit of and everywhere, and it must be stopped.

#thesatanictemple #religiousfreedom #BodilyAutonomy

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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There is a massive overlap between the kind of person who is most threatened by , 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 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.

#ChristianNationalism #thesatanictemple #cevinsoling #DougMisicko

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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In my time within The Satanic Temple, I reached out to and interviewed probably hundreds of people interested in membership and local involvement.

Many, many people applied because they didn’t have any other community and wanted, if not activism, then refuge — especially after the 2016 election.

It is absolutely my experience that of those who stayed, the ones who spoke up the loudest about wanting to make The better than it was (better at serving its most vulnerable members) were the ones with the most to lose when TST failed — or — to live up to its own values.

Those people ultimately left because raising concerns through “the proper channels” was ignored, or they were purged from membership because their “negative commentary” was declared proof of a conspiracy to harm . (Or because they were friends with someone making that commentary.)

And that’s not unique. That has happened again, and is going to keep happening.

Why?

Think of the people who most resonate with The Temple's purported message about reason, compassion, and escaping — the people who are compelled to seek TST membership in the first place.

#tst #satanictemple #thesatanictemple #ChristianNationalism

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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I (Nathan) was a founding member of ’s chapter: there is photographic evidence of my involvement almost the entire time.

The idea I would voluntarily spend almost 6 years of my life as a sleeper agent building a community from nothing, just to destroy it, is delusional.

But that’s the kind of paranoid dogshit The Satanic Temple needs you to swallow in order to rationalize what TST actually does with its resources, or to rationalize *not* asking what it’s doing with those resources, or how it decides on those decisions to begin with.

#thesatanictemple #washingtonstate

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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I (Nathan) was a founding member of ’s chapter: there is photographic evidence of my involvement almost the entire time.

The idea I would voluntarily spend almost 6 years of my life as a sleeper agent building a community from nothing, just to destroy it, is delusional.

#thesatanictemple #washingtonstate

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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But the more immediate problem is that it encourages members and lay supporters to prove their sincerity and commitment to by being on the lookout for “fake members,” who need only be identified by whether they have criticism about TST itself and are willing to speak up on it.

And what happens when that “negative commentary” is firsthand experience with , , , or other harm within The Satanic Temple?

It's not like any organization is immune to it.

#thesatanictemple #abuse #exploitation #harassment

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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failed that claim for many reasons.

But rather than take the L and spend its resources on actual threats to , they’re appealing the dismissal, trying to establish precedent that would make it easier for churches to retaliate against critics.

The Satanic Temple is making a pro-theocracy argument to bind over 62 million people within the .

courtlistener.com/docket/66805

Or, more bluntly: is staking its legitimacy as a on the extent to which it can redefine the law to marginalize its own politically convenient targets in turn.

#thesatanictemple #humanrights #ninthcircuit #tst #religion

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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And this is all without getting into how The Satanic Temple’s owners have used their religious nonprofit to fundraise for SLAPP suits — then also showed that money being funneled to a different, for-profit corp in the process.

(Massachusetts Attorney General, feel free to email or DM us any time.)

nitter.net/deus_ex_lasagna/sta

web.archive.org/web/2022090100

Just incredibly brazen stuff here.

Nonprofit church: The Satanic Temple (Inc.)
vs.
For-profit corporation: United Federation of Churches LLC dba "The Satanic Temple"

The latter is suing us. The former was collecting money for it.

Both share the same owners (or their pseudonyms), HQ, and website.

#thesatanictemple #thesatanictempleinc #unitedfederationofchurchesllc

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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Longtime followers of ’s legal history will know the Temple is, by design, a far greater threat to its own members than it has ever been interested in, or capable of, posing to the Christian Right.

It’s still *WILD* to see explicitly confirming this in its own FAQ 🧵

#thesatanictemple #tst

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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Many people are saying, "fuck (and )".

#thesatanictemple #hailsatan

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Mike D · @md
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@nudiebodhi @EverMama8_
Not sure if we have it in the US.

I tend to align with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and The Satanic Temple.

#jedi #jediism #pastafarian #fsm #thesatanictemple #tst

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Ashwin Dixit · @ashwin
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@tommysolomon

Ah, I'm so out of touch with my own minions. 😈

#thesatanictemple #satanic #satanictemple

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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This is another one of those, "Y'all must just make stuff up because y'all hate so much, huh?" things, but no. No, this comes straight from one of 's own court filings.

#thesatanictemple #tst

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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#thesatanictemple

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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Looks like lost another , this time against the city of#Boston over invocations (so, a repeat of in 2020)

courtlistener.com/docket/31223

#thesatanictemple #lawsuit #scottsdale

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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Looks like lost another case, this time against the city of#Boston over invocations (so, a repeat of

courtlistener.com/docket/31223

#thesatanictemple #scottsdale

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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Remember, is just Scientology for mall goths.

#thesatanictemple

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Queer Satanic · @QueerSatanic
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"" - a Queer Satanic benefit show at in

DETAILS
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at the book store in
92 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101
leftbankbooks.com/

BANDS


and are all set to perform

We're also working on having some local artists present, such as

Proceeds from the benefit fundraiser go to paying the legal defense bills of the Heretics, four former members of who have been sued by for more than three years now in three different courts as part of an ongoing suit designed to exhaust our finances and intimidate other critics of that abusive religious organization into silence.

#hailluciferthelightbringer #leftbankbooks #seattle #Anarchist #pikeplacemarket #hurryupsnuffkin #deadsonics #molotovjuicebox #kellydeanverity #QueerSatanic #thesatanictemple #tst #slapp

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