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A Pennsylvania parent's push to get an After School Satan Club set up at one of the state's elementary schools has gone up in flames after a school board voted it down 8-1.

Hundreds of people turned up at Tuesday's meeting to voice their disapproval of the club, according to the York Daily Record.

Only one member of the Northern York County school board, Thomas Welch, voted in favor of the club.

A mother named Samantha Groome proposed the club. She said she was looking for a non-religious club for students at Northern Elementary School. Groome told the York Daily Record she proposed the After School Satan Club as a secular alternative to a local Christian club program.

But local parents were largely opposed to the club's creation.

"There is a lot of evil already in this world, so to allow it to come into our school and our community is not OK," said parent Laura Vangeli, according to CBS affiliate WHP-TV.

The Satanic Temple says the After School Satan Clubs "promote self-directed education by supporting the intellectual and creative interests of students." The Temple's website also says that the clubs are open to parents, who are welcome to participate.

The Temple also emphasizes that "proselytization is not our goal, and we're not interested in converting children to Satanism."

"After School Satan Clubs will focus on free inquiry and rationalism, the scientific basis for which we know what we know about the world around us," the Temple wrote.

The Satanic Temple has its official headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts. There are four After School Satan Clubs in the US — including one in Portland, Oregon, approved in 2016, and another in Moline, Illinois............

 
A Pennsylvania parent's push to get an After School Satan Club set up at one of the state's elementary schools has gone up in flames after a school board voted it down 8-1.

Hundreds of people turned up at Tuesday's meeting to voice their disapproval of the club, according to the York Daily Record.

Only one member of the Northern York County school board, Thomas Welch, voted in favor of the club.

A mother named Samantha Groome proposed the club. She said she was looking for a non-religious club for students at Northern Elementary School. Groome told the York Daily Record she proposed the After School Satan Club as a secular alternative to a local Christian club program.

But local parents were largely opposed to the club's creation.

"There is a lot of evil already in this world, so to allow it to come into our school and our community is not OK," said parent Laura Vangeli, according to CBS affiliate WHP-TV.

The Satanic Temple says the After School Satan Clubs "promote self-directed education by supporting the intellectual and creative interests of students." The Temple's website also says that the clubs are open to parents, who are welcome to participate.

The Temple also emphasizes that "proselytization is not our goal, and we're not interested in converting children to Satanism."

"After School Satan Clubs will focus on free inquiry and rationalism, the scientific basis for which we know what we know about the world around us," the Temple wrote.

The Satanic Temple has its official headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts. There are four After School Satan Clubs in the US — including one in Portland, Oregon, approved in 2016, and another in Moline, Illinois............

Dis my home county but I don't know much about Northern York schools other than York County in general is pretty conservative. I haven't heard anything about this from my southern York County peeps.
 
A Pennsylvania parent's push to get an After School Satan Club set up at one of the state's elementary schools has gone up in flames after a school board voted it down 8-1.

Hundreds of people turned up at Tuesday's meeting to voice their disapproval of the club, according to the York Daily Record.

Only one member of the Northern York County school board, Thomas Welch, voted in favor of the club.

A mother named Samantha Groome proposed the club. She said she was looking for a non-religious club for students at Northern Elementary School. Groome told the York Daily Record she proposed the After School Satan Club as a secular alternative to a local Christian club program.

But local parents were largely opposed to the club's creation.

"There is a lot of evil already in this world, so to allow it to come into our school and our community is not OK," said parent Laura Vangeli, according to CBS affiliate WHP-TV.

The Satanic Temple says the After School Satan Clubs "promote self-directed education by supporting the intellectual and creative interests of students." The Temple's website also says that the clubs are open to parents, who are welcome to participate.

The Temple also emphasizes that "proselytization is not our goal, and we're not interested in converting children to Satanism."

"After School Satan Clubs will focus on free inquiry and rationalism, the scientific basis for which we know what we know about the world around us," the Temple wrote.

The Satanic Temple has its official headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts. There are four After School Satan Clubs in the US — including one in Portland, Oregon, approved in 2016, and another in Moline, Illinois............


If she simply wanted to create an alternative to the local after-school Christian club, she could’ve chosen a different name. Again, at best this is unnecessarily provocative. Might as well borrow a page from Larry David and call it the spite club.
 
A Pennsylvania parent's push to get an After School Satan Club set up at one of the state's elementary schools has gone up in flames after a school board voted it down 8-1.

Hundreds of people turned up at Tuesday's meeting to voice their disapproval of the club, according to the York Daily Record.

Only one member of the Northern York County school board, Thomas Welch, voted in favor of the club.

A mother named Samantha Groome proposed the club. She said she was looking for a non-religious club for students at Northern Elementary School. Groome told the York Daily Record she proposed the After School Satan Club as a secular alternative to a local Christian club program.

But local parents were largely opposed to the club's creation.

"There is a lot of evil already in this world, so to allow it to come into our school and our community is not OK," said parent Laura Vangeli, according to CBS affiliate WHP-TV.

The Satanic Temple says the After School Satan Clubs "promote self-directed education by supporting the intellectual and creative interests of students." The Temple's website also says that the clubs are open to parents, who are welcome to participate.

The Temple also emphasizes that "proselytization is not our goal, and we're not interested in converting children to Satanism."

"After School Satan Clubs will focus on free inquiry and rationalism, the scientific basis for which we know what we know about the world around us," the Temple wrote.

The Satanic Temple has its official headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts. There are four After School Satan Clubs in the US — including one in Portland, Oregon, approved in 2016, and another in Moline, Illinois............

As a Christian, I support the right of students to start a Satan Club if they want to. They should have the same rights as everyone else. If Christians are allowed to start one, everyone else should be allowed as well.
 

The problem for the Satanists in this case is that they claim not to actually be Satanists.

If the Satanist club is really just about rational thinking, and not about Satan, then its case boils down to this: the school won’t let the club use a provocative name that name is entirely unrelated to the club (because the club isn’t about Satanism, it’s about rationalism). Not very compelling.

They’d be better off constitutionally if they claimed to be actual Satanists (instead of, essentially, provocateurs).
 
The problem for the Satanists in this case is that they claim not to actually be Satanists.

If the Satanist club is really just about rational thinking, and not about Satan, then its case boils down to this: the school won’t let the club use a provocative name that name is entirely unrelated to the club (because the club isn’t about Satanism, it’s about rationalism). Not very compelling.

They’d be better off constitutionally if they claimed to be actual Satanists (instead of, essentially, provocateurs).
How about the Get Thee Behind Me Glee Club
And they could Satanize xmas songs
 
If the Satanist club is really just about rational thinking, and not about Satan, then its case boils down to this: the school won’t let the club use a provocative name that name is entirely unrelated to the club (because the club isn’t about Satanism, it’s about rationalism). Not very compelling.

They’d be better off constitutionally if they claimed to be actual Satanists (instead of, essentially, provocateurs).

Yeah, the "Church of Satan" at this point is pretty much just a troll organization that espouses run of the mill liberal/progressive talking points and uses them to agitate Evangelicals. This would all be much more interesting if they were actually Satanists. As it stands it's a very uninteresting front in the culture war dressed up in provocative nomenclature.
 
Here's an idea. Let's get a public high school coach to start a post-game Satan-worship ritual, and see if this Supreme Court upholds his right to do so?
 

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