{"id":2993,"date":"2024-05-28T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2024-05-28T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T03:17:26","slug":"how-the-satanic-temple-is-just-like-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"How The Satanic Temple is just like the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Court filings reveal not only does TST pay to get positive news coverage to distract from the bad, it used the same PR guy the Church did \u2014 for exactly what you think<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Background: The Satanic Temple started suing four former members of its Washington State chapter in April 2020, accusing us of, among other things, defamation. That was tossed out in February 2021, appealed, and eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/moreover-were-no-longer-being-sued-by-the-satanic-temple-in-federal-court\/\">given up entirely<\/a> in January 2024 when TST was given another chance on the condition they actually specified how they&#8217;d been defamed. Sucks to suck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">But in the middle of this, in October 2021, religion report Julia Duin wrote an article about the lawsuit up to that point. The article wasn&#8217;t perfect, but it was <em>largely <\/em>accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-queer-satanic wp-block-embed-queer-satanic\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mXDsDvTjGS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/footnotes-to-newsweeks-orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-by-accusations-lawsuit\/\">Footnotes to Newsweek\u2019s \u201cOrgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit\u201d<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Footnotes to Newsweek\u2019s \u201cOrgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit\u201d&#8221; &#8212; Queer Satanic\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/footnotes-to-newsweeks-orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-by-accusations-lawsuit\/embed\/#?secret=m7x6MhlKbP#?secret=mXDsDvTjGS\" data-secret=\"mXDsDvTjGS\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even so, in February 2022, The Satanic Temple sued <em>Newsweek <\/em>and Duin as an individual alongside the magazine. At present, the case has still not been finally decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Probably the funniest thing to happen out of the proceedings of The Satanic Temple&#8217;s SLAPP action against <em>Newsweek <\/em>has been the judge directly telling TST, <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/2023-was-a-very-bad-year-for-the-satanic-temple-in-court\/#v-newsweek-magazine-llc\">in March 2023<\/a>, that if they wanted to avoid it being reported that TST higher-ups have posed with alt-right figures, maybe don&#8217;t pose with alt-right figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2ffed844995f0789b626ea4c5f054b98 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Plaintiff did not want to be associated with the alt-right, the best course of action would be to avoid posing with alt-right media figures. The reporting of such an interaction (the occurrence of which Plaintiff does not dispute) is not defamatory merely because it will disappoint some of Plaintiff\u2019s donors.<\/p>\n<cite>Hon. Mary Kay Vyskocil, Memorandum &amp; Opinion \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/63011247\/27\/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc\/\">Document #27<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;Or that&#8217;s what we <em>would<\/em> say if a friend of ours hadn&#8217;t caught something much, much funnier out of a more recent filing in the suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of the nearly two dozen defamation complaints that TST initially filed, only two issues actually remain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first one is, &#8220;Does TST count as a public figure when calculating their burden of proof for whether something is defamatory?&#8221; And the second question underlying that is, &#8220;Was it defamatory for <em>Newsweek<\/em> to quote an ex-member saying that he was aware of abuse being covered up in ways that were more than anecdotal?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In their supporting arguments for summary judgment before the start of trial, TST included a declaration from Cevin Soling a.k.a. &#8220;Malcolm Jarry&#8221;. Soling is one of the two owners of TST and perennial enjoyer of deliberately filing false information on government records around the country such as claiming his name is &#8220;Malcolm Jarry&#8221; on legal documents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, Soling said the <em>Newsweek <\/em>article caused general reputational damages, leading to people canceling their recurring donations to TST. He also complained about people reading the <em>Newsweek<\/em> article and then comparing TST unfavorably to the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(It&#8217;s actually not even clear if <em>this<\/em> is true given that quite a few people outright dismiss anything negative the Temple does with, &#8220;Oh, you mean like the Catholic Church?&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-vivid-purple-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3f99f5045842a6d216b4f23588890035 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>General reputational damages.<\/strong> People have cancelled their recurring donations to the Temple because of the article. We received feedback from people that they believe the subject article statement to be true because Newsweek published it. We have also been unfavorably compared to the Catholic Church because of the article statement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Remediation expenses.<\/strong> To combat the ill effects of the article, I hired a public relations firm and a public relations professional to assess and mitigate damage done to the Temple from the subject article statement. The sum of our remediation expenses was $43,350. True and correct copies of invoices I received and paid in connection with this effort are attached to the motion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<cite>Cevin Soling as &#8220;Malcolm Jarry&#8221;, Declaration in Support of Motion&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/63011247\/106\/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc\/\">Document #106<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"invoices\">In response to the <em>Newsweek<\/em> article, Soling says, <strong>TST spent just over $43,000 on public relations crisis firms <\/strong>trying to bury the <em>Newsweek<\/em> article. Checking out the invoices in full, we can see that this apparently included sending puff pieces to the <em>New York Times<\/em> and other outlets for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-77.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3014\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highlighted in green from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/63011247\/106\/8\/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc\/\">May 2023 invoice<\/a> we see: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-47fc3b922d3e69449d4933b3fac4c998 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note to customer<br>I\u2019m concerned about Pam at the New York Times. It\u2019s been four<br>months and the story hasn\u2019t run. We are missing other national<br>opportunities, including a Texas NY Times editor who wants the story.<br>Maybe we should meet this week.<\/p>\n<cite>Karen E. Campbell of &#8220;Oliver &amp; Ginger&#8221;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which clearly is in regards to this <em>New York Times<\/em> article by Pam Belluck published June 28, 2023 \u2014 the following month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-78.png\" alt=\"Religious Freedom Arguments Underpin Wave of Challenges to Abortion Bans\nIn lawsuits challenging state abortion bans, lawyers for abortion rights plaintiffs are employing religious liberty arguments the Christian right has used for decades.\" class=\"wp-image-3015\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/28\/health\/abortion-religious-freedom.html<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is already pretty damning, and there are Satanic Temple supporters (though <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/the-satanic-temple-and-its-eternal-nobodies\/\">a lot less of them now<\/a>) who would have refused to believe us if we&#8217;d said, &#8220;TST using your donation money to try to deflect bad PR about them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TST&#8217;s sycophants still skeptical of us may <em>still<\/em> say we don&#8217;t know that this donation money comes from donations. But another thing you&#8217;ll want to note about all these invoices is they bill to &#8220;The Satanic Temple&#8221;, full stop, or &#8220;TST&#8221;; they do not specify whether it&#8217;s for-profit &#8220;United Federation of Churches LLC d\/b\/a &#8216;The Satanic Temple&#8217; &#8221; or it&#8217;s tax-exempt church &#8220;The Satanic Temple, Inc.&#8221;, and we have <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/today-is-a-good-day-for-the-satanic-temple-to-release-its-finances\/5\/\">gone to great pains in the past<\/a> to show that that makes total sense when you remember that Cevin Soling and Doug Misicko a.k.a. &#8220;Lucien Greaves&#8221; own them both and use the same physical address for both (64 Bridge Street), and the two men have continuously treated all their corporate entities as interchangeable when questioned about it under oath <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/the-satanic-temple-in-the-courts\/#cave-v-thurston-deposition-1\">for depositions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a separate case in Arkansas in January 2022, The Satanic Temple claimed through its lawyers that &#8220;The Satanic Temple&#8221;, full stop, no longer existed because &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/what-the-hell-is-the-satanic-temple-ep-5-the-satanic-temple-inc\/\">The Satanic Temple, Inc.<\/a>&#8221; had just been misnamed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-79.png\" alt=\"We responded:\n\u201cThe Satanic Temple\u201d is not a discrete entity with tax returns. Intervenors thus have\nno responsive documents. In the telephonic discovery hearing on March 11, the\nCourt directed Defendant to issue new discovery requests to the entities which the\nState seeks tax returns.\nDoc. 212-12 at 5 (April 10, 2020 supplement).\n\nSecretary Thurston complains that this was evasive. Not so.\n\n\u201cThe Satanic Temple\u201d is an umbrella term for a religion which is given legal structure by a constellation of affiliate entities. There is no entity named \u201cThe Satanic Temple\u201d anymore because the errantly named \u201cThe Satanic Temple\u201d corrected its name to \u201cThe Satanic Temple, Inc.\u201d \" class=\"wp-image-3016\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cave v. Thurston, Response in Opposition to Motion&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/7274697\/217\/cave-v-thurston\/\">Document #217<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-vivid-purple-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-abdc4df54c98e8c0d960609eefbf26d1 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We responded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe Satanic Temple\u201d is not a discrete entity with tax returns. Intervenors thus have no responsive documents. In the telephonic discovery hearing on March 11, the Court directed Defendant to issue new discovery requests to the entities which the State seeks tax returns.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secretary Thurston complains that this was evasive. Not so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Satanic Temple\u201d is an umbrella term for a religion which is given legal structure by a constellation of affiliate entities. There is no entity named \u201cThe Satanic Temple\u201d anymore because the errantly named \u201cThe Satanic Temple\u201d corrected its name to \u201cThe Satanic Temple, Inc.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for billing purposes as well as many other purposes, it sure seems like &#8220;The Satanic Temple&#8221; is whatever Soling and Misicko want it to be long after 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"catholic-church\">&#8220;Yeah, yeah, yeah,&#8221; you say. &#8220;But the article title and URL were promising something about the Catholic Church. When are you planning to get to that?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Straight away. Because TST included <em>all<\/em> the invoices for that quantity, so now the entire world knows that of that $43,350, Cevin spent more than half of it ($25,000) retaining the services of a very specific PR firm \u2014 Levick Strategic Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-80.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3017\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Exhibit Invoice no. 7204 (June 15, 2022)&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/63011247\/106\/1\/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc\/\">Document #106, Attachment #1<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does this stand out? Because in the early Aughts, Levick was <em>also<\/em> retained for PR crisis management&#8230;by the Catholic Church, who was in the midst of paying out at least $200 million in settlements to abuse victims in dioceses around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Levick wrote this piece in 2018 under the <em>Forbes<\/em> online brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-03693635009e6f74af0abcd540c8a1aa is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been around 15 years since my firm was retained by an order of the Catholic Church embroiled in a crisis involving charges of pedophilia and cover-up. Periodically, when new developments occur, such as the massive Pennsylvania abuse scandal that surfaced in August, my thoughts naturally revert to that experience. Each time, I ask myself what if anything has been learned. Each time, I wonder too about the larger socio-cultural impact of this seemingly endless ordeal.<\/p>\n<cite>&#8220;The Catholic Church Crisis: A Personal Memoir&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/richardlevick\/2018\/10\/15\/the-catholic-church-crisis-a-personal-memoir\/?sh=64f7cd606244\">Forbes.com<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has since died (rip bozo), and The <em>Washington Post<\/em> of course used an interesting euphemism for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/obituaries\/2023\/04\/12\/richard-levick-crisis-management-dead-age-65\/\">public obituary<\/a>: &#8220;troubled clients of all sorts&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-82.png\" alt=\"Richard Levick, crisis communications specialist, dies at 65\nHis firm specializes in generating media coverage that casts troubled clients of all sorts in a more favorable light\" class=\"wp-image-3019\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-552bbf54757bb90a021a7c73a0f1f507 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Located in Washington\u2019s K Street corridor of lobbyists and other fixers, Levick Strategic Communications specializes in generating media coverage that casts troubled clients in a more favorable light \u2014 preparing executives for interviews, urging reporters to pursue more sympathetic angles and spreading complimentary facts through news releases and social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Billing at rates of $75,000 a month and higher, Mr. Levick\u2019s firm has represented oil companies following catastrophic spills, the insurance company AIG during its collapse in 2008, foreign governments including those of Dubai and Qatar, and the Catholic Church during the clergy abuse scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeing with the head of a company, being followed by spies, being under armed guard in, you know, Yemen or some other area that\u2019s in significant turmoil \u2014 I think once you have crossed that Rubicon, nothing else seems as important,\u201d Mr. Levick said in a recorded interview with colleagues before his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOnce you\u2019re really involved in it, once you represent a government,\u201d he added, \u201cwhy would you do anything else?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a man who got paid very well to represent the worst of the worst, and The Satanic Temple paid him very well to represent them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don&#8217;t know, Cevin. Maybe if you <em>really <\/em>cared about your religion not being compared to the Catholic Church for how badly it handles sexual abuse, your first response wouldn&#8217;t have been to hide behind the PR firm that <strong>literally ran interference for the Catholic Church <\/strong>and took a <em>lot<\/em> of time and money to paint the priests as victims themselves, to try to dilute the public perception of them as active perpetrators of industrialized pedophilia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet: Cevin can&#8217;t even say he got his money&#8217;s worth, because TST <em>also <\/em>put it into this court record that they&#8217;ve been aware of several incidents and allegations of sexual misconduct over the last decade, but somehow had no formal way of investigating them until 2020, and occasionally proactively chose not to investigate some of them sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, TST&#8217;s (former) Director of Ministry Greg Stevens was also deposed for this lawsuit, and <em>he<\/em> corroborated that a member in Austin reported being <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/today-is-a-good-day-for-the-satanic-temple-to-release-its-finances\/3\/\">sexually assaulted by her chapter head<\/a>, and that ultimately she and her friends were kicked out for raising the issue repeatedly at chapter meetings afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TST hoped that the fact the perpetrator had stepped down and left, and that there was a police investigation ongoing, would be the end of the discussion \u2014 but the victim and her friends kept reminding the chapter that it was something that happened at all, that maybe there should be a more substantive response inside their religious community than just &#8220;play ignorant and let the police do their thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so they were removed for, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/63011247\/101\/2\/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc\/\">in the words of Greg Stevens speaking under oath<\/a>, &#8220;just constantly turning attention to themselves and \u2026 [making] it impossible for them [the Austin Congregation] to have meetings.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So to recap, The Satanic Temple is structured in such a way that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>it kicked out a sexual assault victim and her allies for not having the decency to shut up about it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>spent $43K trying to bury an article from Newsweek&#8217;s content mill that didn&#8217;t even mention it directly, most of which was spent on tagging in &#8220;Pedo Defenders &#8216;R Us&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and then filed an dipshit SLAPP suit where discovery made it almost inevitable that it <em>would<\/em> come up in a way that no PR firm can hold back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So in one way it&#8217;s funny: TST spends an incredible amount of effort pretending that it doesn&#8217;t have a history, doesn&#8217;t have a revolving door of people it&#8217;s burnt through and hurt over the last decade. And yet, because Doug and Cevin are as incompetent as they are malicious, so much of their work in maintaining that fa\u00e7ade involves setting out rakes and then stepping on them repeatedly where everyone can tell that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening and where there is no choice <em>but<\/em> to reconcile with that history. However terrified that TST loyalists are of the &#8220;QueerSatanic&#8221; boogeyman, they have much better reason to be afraid of the fucking Streisand effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it&#8217;s also not funny, because however stupid that is, it keeps working. TST&#8217;s reputation is a boom-bust cycle built up by puff pieces written by credulous &#8220;skeptics&#8221; and clickbait journos, and then deflated by schisms and mass purges that none of those writers are interested in writing about afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\">The concept of the Temple being good for exciting reasons is in direct conflict with the reality that it is actually very bad for very boring reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This manufactured ignorance and sleight of hand may not work forever, it may not even keep working in the near future \u2014 but for as long as it does, <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/the-satanic-temple-is-a-threat-to-all-satanists\/\">The Satanic Temple remains a threat<\/a> to the wellbeing and the earnest pursuit of justice of people everywhere, and especially the people who call themselves its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court filings reveal not only does TST pay to get positive news coverage to distract from the bad, it used the same PR guy the Church did \u2014 for exactly what you think Background: The Satanic Temple started suing four former members of its Washington State chapter in April 2020, accusing us of, among other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[719,9,958,1080,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cevin-soling","category-lawsuits","category-newsweek","category-slapp-suit","category-the-satanic-temple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}