Source: Mission Network News, January 26, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year the United States saw a rise in the number of Satan clubs opening in public schools by The Satanic Temple (TST) as an \u201calternative\u201d to the thousands of Good News Clubs started by Child Evangelism Fellowship<\/a> (CEF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n To the surprise of many, however, CEF upholds the right of Satan clubs to be present in public schools. Spokesperson Lydia Kaiser explains the ministry\u2019s position: \u201cWhile we abhor everything they stand for, we acknowledge they also have the right to free speech and clubs which are able to follow the school\u2019s rules in order to meet on school property after school… Parents are actually the gatekeepers because all children must have a signed permission slip to attend any club.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kaiser explains when parents protest vigorously against the formation of after-school Satan clubs, sometimes schools either close down all religious clubs or refuse to grant permission to the Satan club to meet. This results in TST suing the school district, winning, and using those funds for further mischief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It also results in promoting the unconstitutional public perception that no one, Christians included, may express religious faith in the public arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a>. It includes several suggestions for parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other news from the USA, organizers of the evangelistic campaign He Gets Us<\/a> plan to spend $1 billion dollars to promote Jesus over the next three years, including funding pro-Jesus Superbowl commercials. An article for Religion News Service asks, \u201cWill anyone care?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, January 26, 2023 Last year the United States saw a rise in the number of Satan clubs opening in public schools by The Satanic Temple (TST) as an \u201calternative\u201d to the thousands of Good News Clubs started by Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). To the surprise of many, however, CEF upholds the … Continue reading USA: Satan Clubs in Public Schools on the Rise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11751,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions\/11751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}