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So much for the After School Satan Club.
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FOX NEWS reports that the club didn’t past muster with the Northern Elementary School Board in York, Penn., and now the Satanic Temple is suing them on constitutional grounds.
“The First Amendment prohibits a government from considering the popularity of communicative activity when determining whether to facilitate that communicative activity on equal terms with other, similarly situated, groups,” said Mathew Kezhaya, the general counsel for The Satanic Temple, according to local ABC outlet KTUL.
The lawsuit contains the school board discriminated against the organization by not allowing it to start an after-school club when other organizations are allowed to.
Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple spokesperson, told FOX 43 after the club was voted down: “If they deny us the use of a public facility, which they have no right to do, it’ll have to move into litigation — costly litigation that the community is going to have to pay for.”
Local parent Jennifer McAllister was outraged at the Satanic Temple’s attempt to install an after school club in an elementary school.
“They already took God out of schools now they’re going to let Satan in, it’s just crazy,” McAllister told local Fox 43.