With conservatives in Texas and Florida passing a law allowing chaplains to serve as school counselors in public schools in the states, the IRS-recognized religious congregation the Satanic Temple wants in, and that’s making the overt Christians who pushed through the bill nervous, NBC News reports.
While the Satanic Temple’s official stance is that no religious teachers should be in public school, it will demand equal representation within each state’s schools. “If they pass these bills, they’re going to have to contend with ministers of Satan acting as chaplains within their school districts,” said Lucien Greaves, a co-founder of the Satanic Temple, which calls itself nontheistic. “We think the public should know in advance that that’s what the outcome of these bills can be.”
Incidentally, “Lucien Greaves” is a pseudonym of the co-founder who has been the target of threats of violence and death from the self-declared Christ-loving “christians” particularly after installing a sculpture of Baphomet at an Arkansas courthouse after the state had installed a monument to the Ten Commandments on its grounds.