Satanic Temple prepares to enter Florida schools as state moves to pass bill allowing chaplains to volunteer

Satanic Temple gets ready to send chaplains into Florida schools

The group says it wants to offer an alternative to organised religion

The Independent

The group says it wants to offer an alternative to organised religion.

The organisation known as the Satanic Temple is getting ready to send its chaplains into Florida schools, as a bill edges closer to adoption that allows volunteer chaplains in schools.

The religious group, which does not actually believe in Satan, encourages “effective and artful protest”, according to its website.

In the ten years since its conception, the group has advocated for First Amendment rights, as well as religious freedom, across the United States.

The Satanic Temple also runs a series of after school groups, saying they are an alternative to offerings by other religions. Groups are only set up when other religious groups are present on campus.

Now, Florida’s legislature is close to passing a bill which would allow the group’s chaplains into schools alongside other religious leaders…