TST Campaigns & Alliances
Our campaigns embrace the highest of moral callings — from gay rights, to women’s rights, to the protection of children against institutionalized abuse. In each of these cases, we fight against regressive mainstream religious thinking. I think that by embracing Satanism, we represent another phase in our civilization’s social growth. This is another step toward ensuring that each individual is judged for his or her actual actions in the real world, free of fear from persecution for symbolic crimes and/or "blasphemy.
~ Lucien Greaves
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Religious Reproductive Rights (RRR)
The Religious Reproductive Rights (RRR) Campaign works to establish exemptions from laws that do not promote the health and safety of patients and violate our conscience and beliefs. Consistent with our Tenets that call for bodily autonomy and acting in accordance with the best scientific evidence, The Satanic Temple religiously objects to many of the restrictions that states have enacted that interfere with abortion access.
Satanic Good Works
The Satanic Good Works (SGW) Campaign is aimed at performing services that improve communities. SGW advises Congregations on organizing donation drives to shelters and agencies that focus on improving human and nonhuman animal life. A typical GWC event collects goods to fit the needs of that community. It can be anything from menstrual products, diapers, clothing, or food (human and animal alike), all the way down to toothbrushes, soap, and deodorant.
Grey Faction
Conspiracy theories in the 1980s led to irrational fears of the existence of satanic cults that perpetrated horrific crimes that often included outlandish supernatural components. Some licensed therapists capitalized on these narratives and exploited their patients by pressuring them to confabulate false memories under hypnosis.
Victims were caused to believe they had endured traumas falsely, and they often implicated family members and friends in these easily disprovable fabrications. Grey Faction staged its first demonstration in San Francisco against the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). This organization promotes conspiracy theories, the pseudoscience of false memories, and psychiatric abuse in general.
Grey Faction offers several ways to volunteer including, research, letter writing, audio & video transcribing, direct action protests, and more.
TST Health
TST Health is a collaborative of reproductive rights advocates and abortion care providers contracted and directed by The Satanic Temple to advance its Reproductive Religious Rights Campaign. TST Health seeks to expand access to medical abortions and TST's abortion ritual. TST Health provides high-quality, evidence-based medical care in an environment that values our care providers and the people we serve.
Sober Faction
The Satanic Temple Sober Faction is a peer support group that offers a Satanic approach to recovery from addiction. Sober Faction meetings assist those who are suffering from addiction in finding sobriety without having to experience the burden of religious dogma and superstition.
Satanic Representation Campaign
The Satanic Representation Campaign (SRC) dedicates itself to promoting pluralism and fighting for The Satanic Temple members' religious liberty. SRC provides resources and strategic counseling to members of The Satanic Temple who seek to have their religion represented alongside other religious voices by participating in limited public forums such as invocations and displays on public property.
Protect Children Project
The Protect Children Project (PCP) utilizes the First Amendment to protect public school students from corporal punishment, solitary confinement, physical restraints, and the deprivation of bathroom access, as these abusive practices violate The Satanic Temple’s religious belief of bodily inviolability. When a student registers at protectchildrenproject.com, The Satanic Temple notifies their school board that harming this student would violate their civil rights. A billboard announcing the Protect Children Project was erected in Springtown, TX, where a male assistant principal, Kirt Shaw, brutally spanked two teenage girls despite school rules prohibiting such actions. Michael Kelley, the superintendent of Springtown, lobbied the school board to change the policy retroactively to allow male faculty to spank female students.
After School Satan Club (ASSC)
The After School Satan Club (ASSC) is an extracurricular program for children formed in response to evangelical after-school clubs. In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled in Good News Club v. Milford Central School that schools may not discriminate against religious speech and thereby affirmed the rights of religious organizations to operate clubs on public school premises after school hours. Child Evangelism Fellowship, which mounted the lawsuit, used this ruling to establish hundreds of evangelical after-school clubs designed to proselytize to children. The Satanic Temple formed the ASSC to be introduced in districts where the Good News Clubs operate. The ASSC cannot be legally denied where other religious clubs have a presence.
Alliances
Uniformed Coalition
The Uniformed Coalition (UC) enables community networking and advocacy for those in TST who choose to serve. Representation includes Active Duty and veteran military service members, law enforcement officers, firefighters, and front-line/first responders among others who wish to promote justice through compassion.
MIGOS LATINES DEL TEMPLO SATÁNICO
SATANISTS OF COLOR COALITION
An alliance run internally for and by Satanists of Color within TST.
For more information contact: socc@thesatanictemple.org