The Satanic Temple Suing the City of Boston

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2021-02-12 13:45

The Satanic Temple (TST) filed suit against the city of Boston, Massachusetts. The city provides council members the choice of who gives the invocation before each meeting when they should be accepting requests from any community member to cite the prayer without regard for which deity they worship. As of now, the city’s loose adherence to the law allows council members, on a rotating basis, the choice of inviting which community member will provide the opening prayer. According to the Satanic Temple (TST), the latter option leads to favoritism and effectively discriminates against people who hold unpopular religious beliefs. As noted in the lawsuit, the Supreme Court previously ruled invocation prayers must be open to local citizens of all faiths or none at all. If Boston refuses to allow Satanists to be a part of that tradition, that is a discriminatory violation. The Satanists ask the courts to decree Boston’s “prayer scheme” unconstitutional. The lawsuit explains that TST’s Boston chapter members formally requested to provide invocations in 2016 and 2017. Because TST had no council member to promote them, they were not permitted to speak.

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