Posted on 05/09/2023 7:39:58 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Satanic Temple filed suit last week in an Illinois federal district court challenging the city's exclusion of its clergy from delivering an invocation before Chicago City Council. The complaint (full text) in The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Chicago, (ND IL, filed 5/3/2023) alleges in part:
2. The City of Chicago has a longstanding practice of inviting clergy to open each meeting of its City Council with a prayer.
3. Plaintiffs, The Satanic Temple Inc. (“TST”), and Adam Vavrick, an ordained minister of the Satanic Temple and a leader of TST’s Illinois congregation, seek to take part in this time-honored tradition by delivering an invocation before a City Council meeting. For more than three years, the City has rebuffed Plaintiffs’ efforts to provide an invocation without providing any clear explanation of why.
4. The City’s practices with regard to invocations before City Council violate the First Amendment in two ways:
* first, the City violates the First Amendment’s establishment clause by excluding disfavored minority faiths from the opportunity to provide an invocation; and.........
(Excerpt) Read more at religionclause.blogspot.com ...
Don’t they need to be invited to present any invocation?
Why can’t the offer be withdrawn?
These people live to remain a prickly burr in society’s backside. They love to disrupt and disturb just for the sake of disrupting and disturbing. Teenage passive-aggressive behavior as seen in 45 y/o people.
How many are Antifa participants?
Hopefully lightning bolts ⚡️will strike them all!
First they tell everyone they are not a religion, then they complain about their “clergy” not being invited. Only religions have clergy. So which is it?
They would be welcome at the Democrat Convention.
Who would deliver the invocation?
Cupich or Pfleger?
Perfectly acceptable to me.
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