Thu Nov 17, 2022 – 6:05 pm EST
BEDFORD COUNTY, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) – A school board in Virginia is responding to community outrage over The Satanic Temple’s (TST’s) use of a high school auditorium for an event, claiming that current Supreme Court precedent forces them to be neutral as to which groups can access their facilities.
On November 9, WSET reported that TST, a far-left secular advocacy group, has rented the Jefferson Forest High School auditorium via its “After School Satan Club” for a “Family Movie Night” this coming February in which they plan to screen the 1992 children’s animated film Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest, then discuss how the film relates to TST’s tenets.
“I think ultimately, the message is very pro-social and unobjectionable, but the fact of the matter is, is that anybody not interested in it doesn’t have to come,” said TST co-founder and spokesman Lucien Greaves, who suggested that objections to the event were rooted in “things people think they know about Satanism, but they don’t.”
He also claimed objections would be hypocritical, as the auditorium is also regularly rented out for church services.
Area parent Betsy Bosak told WSET she felt
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