As Florida members of The Satanic Temple prepare to make use of a new bill passed on Thursday that allows religious organizations to send chaplains to give services in schools, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is making it clear they are unwelcome to do so, despite qualifying as a tax-exempt religious organization in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
“Some have said that if you do a school chaplain program, that somehow you’re going to have Satanists running around in all our schools,” DeSantis said at a presser at a high school in Kissimmee.
“We’re not playing those games in Florida,” DeSantis went on. “ That is not a religion . That is not qualifying to be able to participate in this.”
Should DeSantis make this exclusion become law, it could become a showdown along religious rights in state courts and possibly the Supreme Court. The Satanic Temple already told the […]
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