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The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the Saucon Valley School District had agreed to pay $200,000 in attorney’s fees and to provide The Satanic Temple and the After School Satan Club it sponsors the same access to school facilities as is provided to other organizations.

The ACLU filed the lawsuit in March after the district rescinded its earlier approval to allow the club to meet following criticism. The After School Satan Club, with the motto “Educatin’ with Satan,” had drawn protests and even a threat in February that prompted closure of district schools for a day and the later arrest of a person in another state.

Saucon Valley school district attorney Mark Fitzgerald told reporters in a statement that the district denies having discriminated against The Satanic Temple, its club or “the approximately four students” who attended its meetings. He said the district’s priorities were education and the safety of students and staff.

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[–] oDDmON@lemmy.world 112 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Four students and Satan, facing down the ISD. You GO guys!

[–] norbert@kbin.social 71 points 11 months ago

This is what patriotism looks like. These are the heros fighting for freedom.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago (3 children)

After going back on its word, insulting a minority of students, and paying at least $200,000, they'll now allow the program! Fucking geniuses there in Saucon Valley administration.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

The Saucon Valley administration thanks the taxpayers for their generous donation to the After School Satan Club.

As it always goes.

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

I guess they can Saucon it, amiright?

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I bet we'll see a small town like this one eventually introduce an ordinance to ban "Satanism" within city limits. And they will see nothing wrong reconciling that with the Constitution.

[–] Cheers@sh.itjust.works 58 points 11 months ago

Saucon? Saucon deez nuts.

After School Satan club? ASS club. Nice.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you want to teach about God in schools.

Then you have to include all the gods. The old, the new, the spaghetti, the fallen, etc.

[–] helyx@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 11 months ago

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[–] June@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago (4 children)

On a completely trivial note: who the hell estimates a number that small? Approximately 4? Just count them, it’s not hard.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jerry doesn't show up on Wednesdays or Fridays and Susan only goes on Wednesday.

[–] June@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

So that’s 2. Who else goes inconsistently?

This isn’t a count of how many were there each day, it is how many participated.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 11 months ago

Counting is hard like real hard.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] June@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s a count of how many attended. So I would assume the number is set.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Timmy stopped showing up after January and Blake only comes every third Tuesday. 👀 Who cares?

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 2 points 11 months ago

It's satan. Doesn't really count as a student, but likes to hang out the school with the 3 in his club. So... approximately four...

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] satan@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it true that hell is full of hot gay demons? 🥺👉👈

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Disappointing.

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 months ago

Add another to the “win” column for TST.

[–] xenu@kbin.social 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm guessing the after school Jesus club didn't draw any objections.

[–] joeyv120@ttrpg.network 47 points 11 months ago

I've been following this story for a while, and no, the school and the surrounding community didn't have a problem with the Christian club. Early on (iirc) the school claimed they denied the Satan club because they handed out fliers in school, against the rules for religious clubs, even though the Christian club did the same thing.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

There was a "Fellowship of Christian Athletes" when I was in high school. I wasn't an athlete, but as a Jew, I doubt I would have been welcome anyway.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

Technically, this was the objection.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 29 points 11 months ago

You can donate to TST, it’s an insane sane choice in a sane insane world.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago

Teachable moment for the school district 🤣

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago

Lmao

Beautiful.

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Common TST W

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Back in the 60s my best friend started the "organization for atheists" OFA for short. This was in response to the young christians group. They even had a cheer OFA, OFA, OFA goodness sakes!!!

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

lmao the jab with "approximately four" man fuck y'all

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I assume the Satanic Temple is the non-theist one, which doesn't actually believe in Satan, and just uses it to troll religious nutjobs.

It's a pity the Christian right are invariably functionally illiterate, or they would have known to not kick themselves in the dick.

[–] totallynotaspy@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Correct on The Satanic Temple (TST) being non-theistic. While it did start off as trolling, it has coalesced into a religion of its own (much to the chagrin of the nutty christians here), just without the superstition used to coerce people in abrahamic religions.

[–] jago@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why would you assume anything? The answer is provided in the article itself. Why can so few people be arsed to read the information provided before leaping to an attempt at pithy commentary?

The group ... views Satan not as a supernatural being but as “a literary figure that represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny over the human mind and spirit.” The club’s programs, they say, focus on “science, critical thinking, creative arts, and good works for the community.”

(Boldface mine. "science" comes to us from Latin's "scientia": knowledge)

The irony of assuming something instead of learning/confirming it from the information provided, as regards an article about an organization whose stated focus is on knowledge and critical thinking, is disappointing.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Tbf they're using one of the internet's laws to their favour. I forgot the name, so I'll do the same thing and call it Godwin's law: when you want to know something you post an incorrect answer (or in this case not knowing the answer, they basically wrote the right answer) and someone will correct you soon enough.

It's lazy tbh, but it helps in case you don't know how deep the rabbit hole is gonna be and don't have the mental capacity or time to invest in it. This is specially relevant to people who have ADHD or other similar attention disorders.

P.S. I did end up looking up the actual name of the law and it's Cunningham's law, so I corrected myself in this case.

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's get meta! lol

Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 1.

Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

you are hitler

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

greatest reply of the season

[–] Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Tbf, to really believe the things that organized religion tells you, you have to be on the wrong side of the IQ bell curve, so it's not really something they have the ability to avoid.

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

IQ has very little to do with this. There are some very intelligent people who are also very religious.

A lot of people confuse intelligence with wisdom. If you considered a human mind like a computer, intelligence would correspond to the CPU and RAM, which determine how fast you think and how much memory you have (and how good it is) whereas wisdom is like the software that runs on the computer.

Install shitty software, and the most powerful, fastest computer will just give you shit. Garbage in, garbage out, as they say.

You take a guy like Elon Musk, for example. Clearly intelligent. Definitely not slow. But he's spectacularly wrong about many things. Because he was not taught right when he was a kid, and he then learned the wrong lessons in life afterwards. Bad software, bad data. Still very intelligent.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Saucon? The district is actually called Saucon?!