![]() “It gets interesting because the school’s first inclination is to shut us down after they receive a threat like that,” she said. “However, prohibiting particular organizations from accessing our school buildings based on the perspectives they offer or express could violate our obligations under the First Amendment and other applicable law and would not align with our commitment to non-discrimination, equal protection, and respect for diverse viewpoints.”Įverett said the Satanic Temple has a cybersecurity team that monitors the many threats that come in whenever they start a Satan Club, and there have been a number stemming from the Lebanon club, but none have ever been carried out. “Not everyone will agree with, or attend meetings of, every group that is approved to use school facilities,” the superintendent continued. Superintendent Andrew Gonzalez issued a statement saying, “The Lebanon Public Schools … must allow community organizations to access school facilities, without regard to the religious, political, or philosophical ideas they express, as long as such organizations comply with the viewpoint-neutral criteria set forth in the (school board’s) policy. “So we have to wait for basically their permission slips or their fliers to start coming out before we take action.”īoth the Bible-based Good News Clubs and the Satan Clubs are allowed in the schools because of a Supreme Court ruling, and the Lebanon superintendent has followed that ruling. “What we do is we wait for the Good News Club to return and then we can return, but we don’t want to be the only religious club operating on campus,” she said. ![]() “While engaged in all of these activities, we want clubgoers to have a good time.”Įverett said the Satan Clubs only go where there are religious clubs operating. The club “focuses on science, critical thinking, creative arts, and good works for the community,” according to its website. Satan represents the freedom of equal access for minorities and the marginalized, including LGBTQ people, “because a lot of those people have been kicked out of their church or abandoned by family,” Everett said. ![]()
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