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Anonymous ID: 137543 March 6, 2022, 6:05 p.m. No.15801260   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1264 >>1276 >>1319 >>1355 >>1404

School District To Distribute Satanic Literature To Students On April 1

 

Nope, not an April Fools' Day joke.

 

By

Ryan Grenoble

03/31/2016 03:47pm EDT

 

Students in Delta, Colorado-area middle schools and high schools will be provided handouts of atheist and satanic literature on April 1, in a bid to pacify parents outraged after the school district handed out free Gideon Bibles to students in December.

 

That Gideons-sponsored event violated the separation of church and state, said parents, who demanded they be permitted to furnish nonreligious items as well.

 

The literature for Friday includes several brochures – one titled "It’s Okay to Not Believe in God!"; one with information on the separation of church and state; and one concerning biblical sex and obscenity that the school district has censored with stickers.

 

"The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities," a coloring book authored by The Satanic Temple, will also be available.

These handouts will be provided to students in the Delta County School District.

 

These handouts will be provided to students in the Delta County School District.Freedom From Religion Foundation

 

The literature comes courtesy of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and The Satanic Temple, which were alerted to the school district's Bible distribution by the Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers last December.

 

WCAF initially protested the Bible event directly to the Delta County School District but, per the group's blog, was repeatedly stonewalled by various district officials and ultimately told the distribution of Bibles on school property during school hours didn't violate school policy.

 

“We do not think schools should be a battleground for religious ideas.”

- Andrew L. Seidel, attorney for the Freedom From Religion Foundation

 

WCAF then asked for help from FFRF, an organization with about 700 members in Colorado, whose lawyers repeatedly petitioned the district for permission to provide nonreligious reading material to students.

 

"The school district originally didn't want to give us the time of day," WCAF spokesman Aleksandr Koleakov told Westword. Thanks to FFRF’s efforts, “now they are willing to, if not stop these illegal exercises, then make it an equal-opportunity thing.”

 

School officials relented after FFRF sent a letter highlighting a similar case in Florida "that resulted in a lawsuit that cost the [Orange] County Public Schools … nearly $90,000 and they ended up approving all the literature for distribution anyway."

 

"We do not think schools should be a battleground for religious ideas," FFRF attorney Andrew L. Seidel wrote in the letter. "But when schools allow the Gideons to prey on children, their message of eternal damnation for any who don’t believe in their god must be countered."

 

The Delta County School District's policy prohibits it from discriminating against "non-curricular material" unless it promotes "hostility or violence, commercial purposes by advertising a product, interferes with the schools, promotes candidacy in an election or is obscene or pornographic."

 

School officials told KJCT they are considering revising the policy to also exclude religious matters and beliefs.

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/school-church-state-satan-atheism-colorado_n_56fd3ff0e4b083f5c606f5fe

Anonymous ID: 137543 March 6, 2022, 6:13 p.m. No.15801319   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Satanic Temple Wins Battle To Bring Lucifer Display Inside Florida State Capitol

 

12/05/2014

 

This year, Satan is slated to join the pantheon of gods and agendas making a stand inside Florida’s State Capitol building.

 

The Satanic Temple successfully joined forces with other church-state separation advocates to pressure the Florida Department of Management Services into accepting its Lucifer holiday display, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

 

The religious diorama, scheduled to appear inside the Capitol’s rotunda in Tallahassee on Dec. 22, features an angel falling from heaven into the fires of hell. A Biblical reference next to the scene reads, “How you are fallen from heaven, o day star, son of dawn!”

 

“Nobody holds a monopoly upon the celebratory spirit of the holiday season,” Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves told HuffPost through email. “If there is fun to be had, then like the responsible hedonists we are we'll have it. We hope everybody can put their differences aside and enjoy the holidays as they see fit. We think that our holiday display sends an affirmative message of inclusiveness and plurality.”

 

One year ago, a similar diorama from the Satanic Temple was rejected by the state agency for being “grossly offensive,” Greaves said. The organization retaliated this year by collaborating with Americans United for the Separation of Church and State to add legal pressure.

 

“Free speech is for everyone and all groups,” the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United, said in a statement. “State officials simply can’t get into the business of deciding that some unpopular messages are ‘offensive’ and must be banned.”

 

The Satanic Temple describes itself an “organized religion” with a mission to “encourage benevolence and empathy among all people.”

 

Florida's Capitol building has become a veritable free-speech battle ground in recent years. Along with the Satanists, the Florida Prayer Network, the International House of Prayer, American Atheists, Tallahassee Atheists, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are hoping to display their messages on government property.

 

Last year, a Seinfeld-inspired Festivus pole created out of beer cans also made an appearance inside the building.

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/satanic-temple-florida-capitol_n_6277082