Satanic Temple hosts 'After School Satan Club' at high school for kids

After denying a resident's request 8-1 to form an After School Satan Club last year, Northern York County School District has approved a Satanic Temple event, which will be hosted at the high school.

On Tuesday night, the district's school board approved The Satanic Temple − Philadelphia and Eastern PA, to rent the high school auditorium for a back-to-school fundraiser night on Saturday, Sept. 24.

According to its website, The Satanic Temple's mission is to "encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority," as well as "advocate practical common sense and undertake noble pursuits."

Their mission mirrors structure where they focus on intellectual and emotional development in accordance with The Satanic Temple's seven fundamental tenets without any proselytization, the website states.

Northern's superintendent, Steve Kirkpatrick, issued a statement on the school's website. "Given some recent media attention to the Satanic Temple’s use of our school facilities, I wanted to provide the school community with further context to the situation."

"As a public school district, the use of our school facilities must be permitted without discrimination. We cannot and do not arbitrarily pick and choose which organizations may or may not use our facilities," he stated.

"In approving any request, the School District does not endorse the activity of any outside organization that rents our facilities, nor are those entities permitted to use the School District’s name or logo," Kirkpatrick added.

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