Billboards Boast Satanic Temple’s ‘Religious Abortion Ritual’

Breitbart ^ | 12/16/2020 | Susan Berry

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Abortion rights activists known as The Satanic Temple (TST) announced Wednesday they have posted billboards in Texas and Florida to promote what they call their “religious abortion ritual.”

The Satanic Temple claims its members may undergo “first-trimester abortions upon demand in states that have enacted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).”

Abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood has been working with the Satanic Temple to fight state abortion restrictions.

In April 2019, the Satanic Temple also announced the IRS had recognized it as a “church” with tax-exempt status.

“As a federally-recognized religion, The Satanic Temple utilizes RFRA and the Hobby Lobby precedent to protect its members from unnecessary abortion regulations that inhibit their religious practices and force them to violate their deeply-held beliefs,” TST states on its website.

Despite its claim to be a “federally-recognized religion,” however, TST also states on its FAQ page the group does not worship Satan.

“[N]or do we believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural,” TST says. “The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan.”

Nevertheless, in its campaign to undermine pro-life legislation, TST is now couching abortion in “religious” terms, much the same as Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry refer to terminating unborn lives as “health care”:

The Satanic abortion ritual provides spiritual comfort and affirms bodily autonomy, self-worth, and freedom from coercive forces with the affirmation of TST’s Seven Tenets. The ritual is not intended to convince a person to have an abortion. Instead, it sanctifies the abortion process by instilling confidence and protecting bodily rights when undergoing the safe and scientific procedure.

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[Maudeen]

We are probably overdue for a Sodom and Gomorrah event in this country. How much more is the Lord going to put up with?

[ifinnegan]

Distraction.

[funfan]

It’s bad and so in your face.

[dayglored]

Sometimes I think, Surely these Satanic folks must be a false-flag operation, a parody, an over-the-top ridiculous ironic satire. Surely nobody takes this sheet seriously.

But they do.

They are evil. Pure, simple, evil.

[blueplum]

ya can’t make this stuff up

I vote that the Satanic Temple whatever has their name typed prominently on every PP handout and print advert

[Organic Panic]

So just a regular democrat group.

[alexander_busek]

I vote that the Satanic Temple whatever has their name typed prominently on every PP handout and print advert

Precisely!

Conservatives should band together and found their own splinter group - I don't know, maybe call themselves the "First Church of Satan (Reformed)" or something - and then immediately put up giant billboards along highways proclaiming "Satan Wants Your Unbaptized Babies!" or the like.

A cartoon Satan - replete with horns and cloven hoof - could be shown ripping unborn babies from the womb and devouring them.

After all, "it's a woman's right!"

Regards,

[unlearner]

If I formed a new religion based on sacrificing pretentious “Satanists” to their deity who they deny even exists, would I also get special legal status?

Just want to give them the evidence they are seeking.