All women - especially women in Texas - should join The Satanic Temple

[wackadoo wabbit]

The Satanic Temple (not to be confused with the Church of Satan) has made abortion a sacrament. (They actually did this some time ago; they were obviously thinking ahead.) Because of this, abortion, even in Texas, is protected under federal religious freedom statutes.

Here's a link to their abortion sacrament page that explains what they've been doing to protect their sacrament against state interference:

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/rrr-campaigns

From their site:

How is the satanic abortion ritual legally protected?

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.

Here's a link if you'd like to join:

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/join-us#shopify-section-join-membership-form

Membership is free, You can buy an official membership card for $25.

There are congregations you could join, including four in Texas. If I lived in Texas, assuming I hadn't already shot myself in the head, I'd definitely join a congregation and act with other congregants to ensure that the state understood that they couldn't prevent us from exercising our religious freedom. Here's a link to find your local congregation:

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/find-a-congregation

Honestly, I think they're wonderful! They're really doing god's (satan's?) work. Here's a link if you'd like to donate to them:

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/donate

[Texaswitchy]

1. Good info

I will look this up.

[Texaswitchy]

2. They is a temple near my house.

[wackadoo wabbit]

3. Excellent! /nt

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. "If I lived in Texas, assuming I hadn't already shot myself in the head,"

Being a sarcastic smartass myself, I greatly appreciate this sort of comment. Rarely have I come so close to actually spitting wine all over my keyboard. . . .





I'll definitely be looking into this. Thanks for the valuable info!

[Enter stage left]

10. Hope it wasn't a good Cabernet

[wackadoo wabbit]

13. Thank you!

"Rarely have I come so close to actually spitting wine all over my keyboard. . . . " is the highest praise I could imagine!

[Hekate]

5. No thank you. There are other denominations that support a woman's right to choose...

Long ago, I knew a very nice elderly gent who used to participate in an Underground Railroad scheme for women in need of a safe abortion. He was an Episcopal priest — a retired bishop when I met him, long after Roe was settled and that part of his work was over.

I once wrote an impassioned letter to the editor during one of the national “pro-life” upheavals, and it ended up as an op-ed placed next to a letter from the local Reformed Rabbi who was supporting choice just as I was. Oddly, the newspaper editors chose to place a shattered cross in the middle of the page to represent religious controversies on the matter. Odd because neither of us was or is Christian, him being Jewish and me being a Unitarian Universalist with pagan affiliations.

So: Episcopal Church, Reformed Jews, Unitarian Universalist, and that’s just the start of the list. Buddhists also have thoughts on the subject: Modern sages have generally come down on the side of the mother’s well-being. Being religious people, prayer or deep thought or meditation comes into the picture at some point — but not censure.

There are more religious groups that are our allies than you know.

Stay away from the Evangelicals and Southern Baptists — but you knew that already.

You’re seemingly having a good time slinging around the words “Satanic Temple,” perhaps expecting to get a rise out of people here, but if you do that in Texas in conjunction with the work that is ahead, you might just get a woman killed instead.

Have you considered looking up Starhawk, perhaps?

[Texaswitchy]

7. I am a ordained minister in the Universal Life Church.

It is a real church..

I marry people.

I think we may need all the help we can get.

I do not believe in God or the devil.

I am pagan.

[Hekate]

8. I know. And we need all the help we can possibly gather in solidarity with others as we enter...

… this dark and dangerous time.

It’s fitting somehow that the Texas Lege and the Opus Dei adherents on the SCOTUS chose this time of gathering darkness and catastrophes of Nature to do their dirty work. Something spiritually dark and evil is at work in them.

[Texaswitchy]

9. Sure is.

Very evil.

[wackadoo wabbit]

11. What? I'm not "having a good time slinging around the words 'Satanic Temple,...'"

That's what it's called! If you have a problem with the name, contact them, not me. I have absolutely no affiliation with the religion (I'm not even a member yet, although I will be before the night's over).

Why would the name "get a rise out of people here"? C'mon, we're not gradeschoolers.

The Satanic Temple is different from other religious groups in that it is a federally-recognized religion that has made abortion a sacrament. Please tell me of another religion that has done that. The Episcopalians haven't. The Jews (neither Hasidic, nor Orthodox, nor Reformed) haven't. The Unitarian Universalists haven't. To be honest, I'm pretty positive that The Satanic Temple has done this specifically to protect Choice, as, with abortion being a sacrament, it is protected under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Again, no other federally-recognized religion has done this.

So while there are many religious groups that are our allies, The Satanic Temple stands above them all, by taking an action that others haven't.

[HAB911]

22. +

[Maraya1969]

6. Hey this is great. Any member is exempt from unnecessary sonograms and counseling

RELIGIOUS ABORTION RITUAL:

The Satanic Temple has announced that its Satanic abortion ritual exempts TST members from enduring medically unnecessary and unscientific regulations when seeking to terminate their pregnancy. The ritual involves the recitation of two of our tenets and a personal affirmation that is ceremoniously intertwined with the abortion. Because prerequisite procedures such as waiting periods, mandatory viewing of sonograms, and compulsory counseling contravene Satanists’ religious convictions, those who perform the religious abortion ritual are exempt from these requirements and can receive first-trimester abortions on demand in states that have enacted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

[wackadoo wabbit]

12. I know! Their making abortion a sacrament is masterful /nt

[LeftInTX]

14. Oh my!

Lovely name......
My husband works for the archdiocese....

I can't even attend a reproductive rights rally

Satanic Temple...oh my word....

Please don't tell me to divorce my husband.
We've been married 36 years and he's retired from public education and this is his job now....

[Texaswitchy]

15. Just a name.

For shock value.

[Hekate]

16. See my post #5. We have allies among faith groups across the country...

… if you quietly seek or leave yourself open (no doubt a necessity where you reside), you will find.

[LeftInTX]

17. Yes, I saw post your post, much appreciated...

It's hard with his job at the Diocese
Reproductive Rights all have to be done stealth

This is his second year there
Wished he would have stayed retired....

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. A no. nt

[obamanut2012]

19. There are a terrific humanist group who have won many court cases

They are an official religion, and are protected under the Constitutional. Everyone here freaking out literally are just as bad as RWNJs just reacting to a name.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. Well said.

[HAB911]

23. +

[kcr]

25. Agreed

It's sheer ignorance.

[wackadoo wabbit]

26. Yes, and thank you for saying this /nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. I have several friends who are members -- not sure why people are flipping their shit over it.

[Texaswitchy]

24. It is the name.

Witches get called bad names also.

[ecstatic]

27. Yikes. I understand the motive but it's not helpful

as far as messaging goes.