Posted on 09/23/2016 5:47:23 AM PDT by detective
A so-called "After School Satan Club" proposed by the Satanic Temple of Seattle to be held at Centennial Elementary School should be allowed to proceed, an attorney hired to represent the Mount Vernon School District said.
“I think that if the school district denied that application, you would face costly litigation that would be distracting from your mission," said Duncan Fobes of the Seattle-based law firm Patterson, Buchanan, Fobes and Leitch during a Wednesday meeting of the Mount Vernon School Board. "And would ultimately be unsuccessful.”
Fobes was hired by the district's risk-pool insurance group to assess whether the district had legal standing to deny the temple's application.
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I have no problem with that. Prayer will handle it.
Probably have the Stones singing sympathy for the devil.
World gone mad.
Elementary school
This is actually a good idea. Let the club meet. Take down the names of all the kids who attend. Then put a police tail on them. It will probably prevent a fair number of crimes.
If they allow other religious-based clubs, they have to allow it. If they prohibit Bible clubs, then the will have to do that if they allow the ‘Satan’ club.
Is an After School Christian Club allowed?
Satan has the whole day.
Nice. Let the state follow around citizens who don't follow the correct doctrine.
Or maybe you meant the church police ?
I can only imagine the ugly feeling that school will have on those grounds. Inviting evil to a place where kids spend their days....
It’s a sick world and it’s going to get worse.
Won’t have to worry about stray cats in that neighborhood?
It’s a government indoctrination center.
How could anyone possibly be surprised?
Only because of a false interpretation of the First Amendment. The First Amendment does not create a "wall of separation" between church and state. Nor does it require religious neutrality by the state. It reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…First to be noted is that this only applies to Congress, not to the states. Second, it does not forbid laws establishing religion but rather laws regarding the establishing of religion or the free exercise thereof. Congress can pass no law forbidding a state from establishing a religion just as much as it cannot mandate it. In other words, what the First Amendment actually does is take the question of establishing a religion out of the Federal jurisdiction and reserves it to the states.
It’s an organized effort being done by outsiders, most likely Soros and homosexual groups.
Their goal i to make it so miserable for schools to allow Christian clubs, that the school will eventually ban all clubs (with exceptions for gay and Muslim groups).
That is the goal.
In before the school screams “separation of church and state!!”.
I’m not going to hold my breath.
I stay as far away from that stuff as I can.
What would be kind of funny would be for a Christian group to start an after school Satan club. Then start by saying “Well, we must understand our enemy God so let’s study the Bible until we thoroughly understand every aspect of it!” LOL.
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