{"id":185634,"date":"2014-09-21T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/21\/my-mom-once-threatened-this\/"},"modified":"2014-09-21T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T02:15:00","slug":"my-mom-once-threatened-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/21\/my-mom-once-threatened-this\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mom Once Threatened This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only it was the threat to hand out a Marxist tract on Atheism, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/09\/bible-pushing-christians-open-the-door-for-satanic-activity-books-in-florida-schools\/\">Church of Satan children&#8217;s activity book<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Satanic Temple has responded to an Orange County, Florida decision to disseminate religious materials in public school by creating complementary materials that espouse the philosophy and practice of Satanism.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Last month, a Florida judge ruled that if the Orange County school district allowed Christian groups to disseminate Bibles and Christian-oriented religious materials in its schools, it would also have to allow atheist groups to do the same.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">David Williamson of the Central Florida Free Thought Community \u2014 who recently fought against Brevard County\u2019s attempt to ban atheists from offering invocations at public meetings \u2014 sued the district over its initial unwillingness to allow atheist literature with titles like \u201cJesus Is Dead\u201d and \u201cWhy I Am Not a Muslim\u201d in the schools. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A judge dismissed that case after the school board decided to allow the materials.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Satanic Temple took advantage of this decision, deciding to flood Orange County schools with a pamphlet entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/thesatanictemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Activity_Book.pdf\"><i>The Satanic Children\u2019s Big Book of Activities<\/i><\/a> <span style=\"color: black;\">[as an aside, it is far less interesting than I had hoped] <\/span>that contains kid-friendly Satanic lessons. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My mom had a similar experience dealing with the Charlottesville school system, when my <strike>little<\/strike> big brother refused to take a bible, he was called a &#8220;Heathen,&#8221; my mom complained, and was told that recent court decisions allowed this.<\/p>\n<p>My mom replied that this would require similar access to hand out the aforementioned Marxist tracts, and superintendent decided that, in the future, no one should hand out religious literature at school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only it was the threat to hand out a Marxist tract on Atheism, not Church of Satan children&#8217;s activity book: The Satanic Temple has responded to an Orange County, Florida decision to disseminate religious materials in public school by creating complementary materials that espouse the philosophy and practice of Satanism.Last month, a Florida judge ruled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,968,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-education","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}