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[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 122 points 2 years ago

Time for The Satanic Temple to open Satan's Elementary School and apply for charter funding.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

This is how you kill it. I hope the TST does just that.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or even just getting them to squabble over which Christian denomination the school will follow. Baptist? Mormons? A specific protestant denomination? Or maybe even the gasp Catholics who are swayed by the Pope! Get them to internecine fight over their flavor of God to follow and it'll break apart in no time.

[-] Hellsadvocate@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

It won't be killed. We've already seen them allow bibles in schools while denying every book conservatists don't want. It's a double standard that's not being enforced in the federal court level. And if you think the supreme court will block that then good luck.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, this is what’s so frustrating. The Supreme Court has been pretty clear that it will only rule in favor of religious freedom for Christians. Access to abortion is critical for Jews and Muslims for example, but that doesn’t stop them from subjecting all of us to the extreme Christian belief on the matter. They’ve even gone as far as to say that the beliefs of reform or moderate Jews don’t count as Jewish beliefs because only the orthodox count (someone smarter than me can find the SCOTUS opinion that says this, it’s real). So yeah, religious freedom for Christians, no one else.

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

We should all be joining The Satanic Temple at this point.

fight fire with fire

[-] Tired8281@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I'd send my kid to Lucifer P. Satan Memorial Elementary.

[-] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, they'll just make an exception that only christian public schools are allowed just like they made exceptions for cis children to get gender affirming care and surgeries in their blatantly unconstitutional/genocidal trans care bans

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, they'll try.

Arkansas tried that but TST still got their Baphomet statue.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 84 points 2 years ago

This should be an open-and-shut case. This school should just obviously not be funded by the public based on even a cursory reading of U.S. law.

Unfortunately, in this climate, they'll probably get double funding now.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This school should just obviously not be funded by the public based on even a cursory reading of U.S. law.

You don't even need to go to Federal Law for this. It's not legal under State Law or the State Constitution.

[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago

Whoa you came over to lemmy. I saw you pop up constantly in my subreddits. Good to see you here.

[-] kgbbot@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 years ago

This is bullshit and whoever is trying to make this reality needs to learn about separation of church and state and ponder it while they have all influence and decision making power stripped permanently since they lack reading comprehension skills.

[-] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 years ago

These people have spent decades pretending that Thomas Payne et all were good little Christian fundamentalists who thought that Christian rule was such a no brainer they just never thought any other religious group could exist, and that it is a foregone conclusion that all of law and order was divinely inspired by Judeo Christian thought and values, and didn’t exist prior, because nothing existed prior to their Stone Age fan fiction.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Can you imagine the outcry if Muslims attempted this same bullshit? What about if the satanic temple did it?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Let's try to make it happen.

I mean, fuck it, why the hell not.

[-] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago

“Todays lesson is about bodily autonomy and your inalienable right to exercise it!”

[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago

It's all political theater.

They go in knowing they'll probably lose in court, and then get to scream about 'activist, Left wing judges.'

Actually educating children? Not their concern

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