Satan club readies to offer activities to elementary school students after Christmas

A School Satan Club in Tennessee is under fire after announcing it would offer elementary school students activities after Christmas.

The activities will be hosted by the Satanic Temple at Chimneyrock Elementary School in Cordova, according to a report.

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An after-school meeting will commence on Jan. 10 in the library and continue through the spring semester.

Satanic Temple readings maintain that the group is a nontheistic religion that sees Satan “as a literary figure who represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny and championing the human mind and spirit,” the report noted.

Elementary students at the school, who already have access to a Christian club, will not be converted to a new religious ideology if they join the new club. Rather, they will be granted activities that “emphasize a scientific, rationalistic, non-superstitious worldview.”

“As a public school district, we’re committed to upholding the principles of the First Amendment, which guarantees equal access to all non-profit organizations seeking to use our facilities after school hours,” Memphis-Shelby County Schools said in a statement. “This means we cannot approve or deny an organization’s request based solely on its viewpoints or beliefs.”

MSCS Interim Superintendent Toni Williams attempted to reassure faith leaders Wednesday that accepting the Satanic Temple is something the district will do strictly out of reverence for the law.

“I want to assure you that I do not endorse, I do not support the beliefs of this organization at the center of the recent headlines. I do, however, support the law. As a superintendent, I am duty-bound to uphold our board policy, state laws and the constitution,” Williams said.

“I challenge you not to push away in fear, but to push in with support,” Williams said. “We can support the First Amendment and our students at the same time.”

Williams’s sentiment was not shared by many in the community.

“Satan has no room in this district,” MSCS school board Chairwoman Althea Greene said.

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His “liberality is being challenged” when it comes to the First Amendment, the Rev. Bill Adkins said.

“We cannot allow any entity called Satanic Temple to have private time with our children,” Adkins said. “I can’t go into the school building and pray. But yet we can rent a facility to the Satanic Temple and they can give a party for children. It’s ridiculous. It’s absurd.”