I’m seriously interested in your opinion. Here is a press release concerning their current activities in Texas:<\/p>\n
The Satanic Temple displays anti-corporal punishment billboard in Texas<\/strong>
\nA billboard promoting Satanist organization\u2019s campaign to protect children from violence was placed in Three Rivers, Texas, where school reinstated corporal punishment.<\/em><\/p>\nOctober 26, 2017 – Commuters passing through Three Rivers, Texas on Route 281 will likely notice a new black billboard emblazoned with a red inverted pentagram framing a goat\u2019s head underneath, which reads: \u201cPaid for by The Satanic Temple.\u201d More prominently, the primary message states: \u201cOur religion doesn\u2019t believe in hitting children.\u201d A website is listed below: www.protectchildrenproject.com. It\u2019s an advertisement for The Satanic Temple\u2019s campaign to offer religious exemptions from corporal punishment and other forms of abuse in public schools such as the use of solitary confinement (aka seclusion rooms), physical restraints, and restricting access to the bathroom.<\/p>\n
Placement of the billboard in Three Rivers is meant to draw attention to the Three Rivers Independent School District, where corporal punishment was just reinstated for use against Students.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, our billboard will give pause to passersby who will be forced to confront the fact that the school district is being operated by depraved and ignorant sadists who have no business being in education,\u201d Greaves said. \u201cThe billboard should be a wakeup call that the school district trustees, who voted 6 – 0 for corporal punishment, need to be replaced by competent and humane members of the community who have children\u2019s best interests at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to The Satanic Temple spokesperson, Lucien Greaves, \u201cThere is no empirical support for the notion that punitive beatings delivered to children act as an effective corrective to problematic behavior. In fact, the opposite has been proven to be true. We find it sad and irresponsible that the Three Rivers Independent School District would be backward enough to re-introduce this barbaric and counterproductive practice into their schools.\u201d According to the Department of Education, over 110,000 children are hit in schools each year. Remarkably, many people are unaware that this practice persists.<\/p>\n
Greaves continues, \u201cThree Rivers Elementary School\u2019s campus behavior coordinator, Andrew Amaro, is reported to have proposed the new corporal punishment to district leaders, which suggests to us that he is grossly unqualified for his job or any job where he might have contact with children. The district claims that parents may opt out of having their children beaten, but courts have ruled that schools do not have to abide by those exemptions. In addition, some parents are abusive and have no problem with school officials who hit their kids. We offer children who share our religious beliefs to opt out of suffering physical abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hold among our tenets that \u2018The body is inviolable, subject to one\u2019s own will alone\u2019. As such, we have launched a campaign to offer an exemption against corporal punishment and solitary confinement to any student who shares this deeply held belief. We have set up a website (www.protectchildrenproject.com) where students can register, whereupon The Satanic Temple will put the child\u2019s school board on notice that subjecting that student to abuse is a violation of their civil rights. We are claiming a religious exemption on behalf of the student under First Amendment Protection.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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