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After School Satan Clubs Counterbalancing Good News Clubs
No, it’s not devil worship. It’s not even anything worship, really.
If a public elementary school near you has a Good News Club, chances are, a Satan club will form as a countermeasure to ensure balance in this school. Naturally, some parents have expressed concerns about the nature of these Satan clubs. After all, going to these clubs could allow kids to challenge their parents’ views on “pernicious CRT” and “disturbing LGBTQ and trans orthodoxy”.
The Satanic Temple established these clubs as a way to maintain “plurality and true religious liberty” in schools where evangelical clubs have formed. Rather than aiming to disseminate Satanism, after-school Satan clubs promote a “scientific, rationalist, non-superstitious worldview”. These clubs will be operated by volunteers who meet professionalism, social responsibility, and communication standards set by the Temple.
After a 2001 Supreme Court ruling allowed Good News and other evangelical clubs to operate, the Satanic Temple recognized that they would be granted the same rights as other religious clubs in American public schools. Doing otherwise would be considered unjustifiable viewpoint discrimination under the US constitution’s Establishment Clause. The Establishment Clause allows student and…
