VOA News | Friday, December 15, 2023 
Education, Faith Leaders Denounce Planned Satan Club at US Elementary School

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Faith and education leaders are denouncing plans for an After School Satan Club at a Tennessee elementary school but said they would follow the law and allow the organization hosting the club to meet. Around 40 members of the faith community in Memphis stood united with leaders at Memphis-Shelby County Schools on Wednesday to criticize the planned club and to question The Satanic Temple’s intentions in offering it, according to the Commercial Appeal newspaper. The faith community and educators also wanted to make it clear that students would need signed permission slips to attend and to express support for religious organizations that have partnered with the district, the newspaper reported. “You see the faith-based community standing here,” said board chair and local pastor Althea Greene, who wore a clerical collar. “We’re going to stand up and we’re going to be vocal. Satan has no room in this district.” The Satanic Temple plans to host the club at Chimneyrock Elementary School in Cordova. It will begin meeting January 10 in the school’s library and run through the spring semester, according to an announcement Tuesday posted on social media…Read more