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What happened?

One of the co-owners of the Temple claims he’s stepping down as national spokesperson after noted transphobe and longtime reactionary dingus David Silverman was touring The Satanic Temple’s headquarters/art gallery in Salem with Christine Shellska.

Satanic Temple owner Doug “Lucien Greaves” Misicko took a picture with Silverman (and Shellska) in front of TST’s “Baphomet with Children” statue.

Instead of apologizing or even explaining his seeming endorsement of a person now primarily known for being loathsome, Misicko doubled down and blamed everyone criticizing him.

Wait, that’s it?

Yeah, and it’s been tearing The Satanic Temple’s membership apart for the past few days to the extent Misicko is promising (again) to step down as national spokesperson.

OK. Back up. Who is David Silverman? Is he the Nazi lawyer guy?

That’s Marc Randazza you’re thinking of, but it makes sense that you’re confused because there are a lot of these figures. TST is awash in them, and that’s part of the problem.

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The Satanic Temple’s Grey Faction protests the fear-mongering and destructive pseudoscience of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) in Chicago

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The Satanic Temple and its Eternal Nobodies

TST members and local groups begin another mass departure as Lucien Greaves clarifies once again that the “freedom to offend” does not include him as a target

"What the hell is going on with The Satanic Temple right now?" a lot of TSTers are asking right now as multiple local groups break off (Colorado the latest).

You can come to your own conclusions, but here's the public conversation that's happened so far:

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Inciting incident (Archive.org)

Lucien Greaves “Invitation To Leave” email

Canadian TST Minister responds

Lucien Greaves “fires” Canadian Minister

Memes mocking Lucien Greaves

“Internal Nobodies” rebel publicly

Lucien Greaves posts “An Apology” on Substack

Canadian TST member responds

Lucien Greaves goes on a sycophant podcast

A wave of individual departures (Archive.org)

Greg Stevens (Head of TST Ministry)

Lanzifer Longinus

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Chalice Blythe

Tertia Withershins

Karl Kasarda (“InRange TV”)

Richard Proctor (“The Neurodivergent Satanist”)

Local Groups leave (Archive.org)

The Satanic Temple Minnesota

The Satanic Temple of Florida

The Satanic Temple of Australia

The Satanic Temple of Colorado

Coalition of Satanic Congregations

The Satanic Temple of Alabama

The Satanic Temple of North Carolina

Friends of The Satanic Temple France

The Satanic Temple Nevada

The Satanic Temple South Carolina

Other group defections

“Hail Lucien Greaves“

On Schisms

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So did y'all exclude transmascs from this article https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-temple-cannot-help-you-get-an-abortion-and-it-does-not-deserve-your-support/ for fun? Cause "women and nonbinaries" isn't the inclusivity one would expect from a queer satanic blog.

Without trying to be insulting, this is literally just a reading comprehension issue on your part.

That being the case, we're going to drop the section you're talking about below the jump for full context.

"Many women and nonbinary people who have spoken out" is not a gesture at inclusivity. It's describing the specific collection of people that immediately follow and are linked to: trans women, cis women, and nonbinary people.

Unless someone's gender identity has changed, we don't have any men included in that list, and in the case of trans men specifically, we don't have examples of such people speaking out about this.

Many women and nonbinary people who have spoken out about problems among TST’s leadership as a persistent issue, although from top people this has slowed down in recent years, likely due to TST threatening critics with legal action for supposedly violating Non-Disparage Agreements they forced top people to sign (and yes, continue to use):

Why I’m Leaving The Satanic Temple by Emma Story

“The Struggle for Justice is Ongoing” by Jex Blackmore

Mary Doe Speaks, an interview by the former TST St. Louis Chapter with TST client Mary Doe, as well as the response to Temple co-owner Lucien Greaves publicly attacking her (part one) (part two)

“Yet Another Quitting The Satanic Temple Post” by Autumn

Why I Left The Satanic Temple by Aria deSatanas

End of Times, Beginning of Times by Evelyn Breedlove

Local chapter member banned, doxxed after reporting sexual assault of chapter head by Anonymous, for obvious reasons

Top leadership more concerned with damage control than addressing damage, (part one) (part two) shared by Rumor Solanine

Second thoughts about Philadelphia Lupercalia by u/tossatanicacc

See also comment “I’m getting some heat from our admin for posting this”

See also: The Satanic Temple’s “Sex-Positive Guidelines” document, namely “Participatory events are those in which attendees may participate in consensual sex-positive activity, 1. Might include orgies, BDSM, fetish balls”

See also TST Ordination Council Member Dex Desjardins re: official TST orgies and the need for that document being that the orgies have “been happening for a while now”

On Washington State leadership by Randi a.k.a. SnailWhisperer

With additional context by another former member, Wylie

Yet more by a third person, Luciana Lovecraft; a fourth, Lynne Cooney; a fifth, Aeryn Kylie Reed; a sixth, who tried to enroll her child in After School Satan (more on that); a seventh, Luci Furr; and an eighth person, famous for their “Lady Lucifer” character.

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