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Satanic Temple after school club wins $200k settlement from Hellertown school district (www.inquirer.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Lehigh Valley school district that tried to ban an after-school Satan Club from meeting on its property earlier this year has agreed to pay $200,000 to cover attorney fees. The school will also give the club the same access to school facilities as “comparable groups.”

In the settlement finalized Thursday between the Saucon Valley School District and The Satanic Temple, the district also agreed to not retaliate or discriminate against club members, families or volunteers “on the basis of their viewpoint” or for the “exercise of their First Amendment rights.”

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This article missed the best bit:

The district has agreed to pay $200,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs to TST’s attorneys.” Additionally, the Saucon Valley School District agreed to pay the ceremonial sum of $1 to The Satanic Temple in nominal damages.

Classy AF, they didn't even press for damages. From their blog and email newsletter.

https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/news/saucon-valley-district-settles-over-after-school-satan-club-ban-amid-school-board-election-losses-tied-to-financially-wasteful-ego-driven-legal-melodramas

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nice. Also: "four school board incumbents were voted out in favor of challengers who ran a campaign primarily focused on the “unnecessary and financially wasteful, ego-driven legal melodramas”

It seems like they found their way to the "and find out" half of the equation.

It astonishes me how many grown adults think that picking an unnecessary feud with a bunch of teenagers is somehow going to go well for them.

If they want these kids to find their view of enlightenment, they could go deal with the glaring issues in their view of enlightenment.

In there meantime, as the Pink Floyd says "leave those kids alone*.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The Lehigh Valley School district is rough around the edges. My cousin faced retaliation from the top because they outpaced the system there.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Fuck that shit. The only reason they did this was to spare the school district.

The right people didn't even get punished here.