#luciengreaves — Public Fediverse posts

The co-owner of The Satanic Temple has an almost infinite number of “no fucks” to give for all kinds of political violence and victims (the enforced silence on TST re: police brutality and George Floyd’s lynching is well-known internally)

but a white bigot gets killed and he’s johnny on the fucking spot

https://queersatanic.com/why-does-the-satanic-temple-care-so-much-about-charlie-kirk/

when you look closer into it, the pattern is clear and it’s not hard to figure out why this political killing is such a tragedy and vital free speech issue to TST but nothing else is

#TheSatanicTemple #LucienGreaves #TST #CharlieKirk #Satanism #FreeSpeech

Hail Satan ? (2019)

★★★☆

Un très joli pied de nez à l’Amérique conservatrice et puritaine.

✍️ La suite ici :
https://www.senscritique.com/film/hail_satan/critique/310662297

#HailSatan? #PennyLane #TempleSatanique #Fanatisme #Satan #LucienGreaves #MalcolmJarry #Documentaire #Film #Cinema

Hail Satan ? (2019)

★★★☆

Un très joli pied de nez à l’Amérique conservatrice et puritaine.

✍️ La suite ici :
https://www.senscritique.com/film/hail_satan/critique/310662297

#HailSatan? #PennyLane #TempleSatanique #Fanatisme #Satan #LucienGreaves #MalcolmJarry #Documentaire #Film #Cinema

Hail Satan ? (2019)

★★★☆

Un très joli pied de nez à l’Amérique conservatrice et puritaine.

✍️ La suite ici :
https://www.senscritique.com/film/hail_satan/critique/310662297

#HailSatan? #PennyLane #TempleSatanique #Fanatisme #Satan #LucienGreaves #MalcolmJarry #Documentaire #Film #Cinema

Hail Satan ? (2019)

★★★☆

Un très joli pied de nez à l’Amérique conservatrice et puritaine.

✍️ La suite ici :
https://www.senscritique.com/film/hail_satan/critique/310662297

#HailSatan? #PennyLane #TempleSatanique #Fanatisme #Satan #LucienGreaves #MalcolmJarry #Documentaire #Film #Cinema

Hail Satan ? (2019)

★★★☆

Un très joli pied de nez à l’Amérique conservatrice et puritaine.

✍️ La suite ici :
https://www.senscritique.com/film/hail_satan/critique/310662297

#HailSatan? #PennyLane #TempleSatanique #Fanatisme #Satan #LucienGreaves #MalcolmJarry #Documentaire #Film #Cinema

#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org

Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko wrecks another legal case, this time over #invocations at Chicago City Council

A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.

> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35

The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”

#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.

TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:

“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”

And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.

Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/

#Satanic #Satanism #lawsuits #failure

#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org

Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko wrecks another legal case, this time over #invocations at Chicago City Council

A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.

> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35

The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”

#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.

TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:

“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”

And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.

Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/

#Satanic #Satanism #lawsuits #failure

#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org

Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko wrecks another legal case, this time over #invocations at Chicago City Council

A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.

> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35

The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”

#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.

TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:

“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”

And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.

Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/

#Satanic #Satanism #lawsuits #failure

#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org

Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko wrecks another legal case, this time over #invocations at Chicago City Council

A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.

> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35

The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”

#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.

TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:

“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”

And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.

Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/

#Satanic #Satanism #lawsuits #failure

#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org

Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko wrecks another legal case, this time over #invocations at Chicago City Council

A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.

> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35

The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”

#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.

TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:

“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”

And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.

Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/

#Satanic #Satanism #lawsuits #failure

Is it dead-naming to refer to “Lucien Greaves” as “Doug Misicko”?

No, it is not.

https://queersatanic.com/is-it-dead-naming-to-refer-to-lucien-greaves-as-doug-misicko/

Sometimes well-meaning people ask this question sincerely, but in practice, it usually feels like people raise and deploy the specter of dead-naming as a way to distract from all of the other criticisms of The Satanic Temple and its owners that are completely indefensible.

He is not calling himself names like “Greaves” or “Doug Mesner” out of a sincere desire to identify differently than his government name but because he is attempting to make it more difficult to hold him accountable as the owner of a collection of for-profit and tax-exempt corporations he solely or jointly controls totally.

Moreover, we’re still being sued by #TheSatanicTemple in ̷f̷e̷d̷e̷r̷a̷l̷ ̷c̷o̷u̷r̷t̷ ̷a̷n̷d̷ ̷n̷o̷w̷ King County Superior Court.

#TST is also still suing Newsweek and its reporter (but maybe not her anymore!) for writing about us. In addition, the #SatanicTemple is now suing a TikToker in Texas for talking about our case. Check the profile link for more.

#LucienGreaves #DougMesner #DougMisicko #DeadNaming

“Despite #DeSantis’ contempt for #religiousLiberty, the #Constitution guarantees our equal treatment under the law, and DeSantis is not at liberty to amend the Constitution by fiat, at whim. He just invited #Satanic #chaplains into #publicSchools, whether he likes it or not.” ~#LucienGreaves, co-founder of the #SatanicTemple

#FloridaFascism #Florida #GOPfascists #DeSantisDystpoia #FireRonDeSantis #DeSantisTheFascist #FFRF #FirstAmendment #ReligiousFreedom

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/2971526/desantis-tussles-satanic-temple-school-chaplain-bill/

Partially, this is because Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko and #CevinSoling (a.k.a. “#MalcolmJarry”) are fundamentally reactionary Gen X edgelords whose politics never go further left than right-wing libertarianism.

https://queersatanic.com/lucien-greaves-and-the-satanic-temple-have-a-lot-to-answer-for/

https://queersatanic.com/why-you-havent-left-the-satanic-temple/#russia-today

Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko was close friend and collaborator with Shane Bugbee for *more than 10 years*

during PUBLIC BROADCASTS, Misicko heard Bugbee say things like that and even heard Bugbee clarify repeatedly that he meant sincere and serious praise

Misicko heard Bugbee play white nationalist music like #RaHoWa encouraging "White people awake / save our great race”
https://the.satanic.wiki/index.php/Might_Is_Right_24-Hour_Radio_Special#RaHoWa_Song_break

and came back a year later to co-host another multi-hour broadcast that included a pro-KKK anthem cheering the violent lynching of a Black man trying to eat at a white restaurant
https://the.satanic.wiki/index.php/The_ABCs_of_the_Alphabet#Johnny_Rebel_song_break

and Misicko added plenty bigoted statements of his own detesting Jewish, Muslim, Black and people, as well as the intellectually and physically disabled while professing his appreciation of hidden fascist heroes
https://kolektiva.social/@TheSatanicWiki/109989241155307298

but it's the past huh

Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko holds an emergency meeting with #TheSatanicTemple's remaining "international council" in #SalemMA in response to latest audio release (2023, colorized)

Context:
https://kolektiva.social/@TheSatanicWiki/109961238695950703

(Did we just spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to change all the swastikas to sun crosses and the Hitler portraits to D'Annunzio ones before giving up and using this version? Yes.)

#Satanism #Boston #SatanCon #SatanCon2023 #NaziSatanistsFuckOff

Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko holds an emergency meeting with #TheSatanicTemple's remaining "international council" in #SalemMA in response to latest audio release (2023, colorized)

Context:
https://kolektiva.social/@TheSatanicWiki/109961238695950703

(Did we just spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to change all the swastikas to sun crosses and the Hitler portraits to D'Annunzio ones before giving up and using this version? Yes.)

#Satanism #Boston #SatanCon #SatanCon2023 #NaziSatanistsFuckOff

Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko holds an emergency meeting with #TheSatanicTemple's remaining "international council" in #SalemMA in response to latest audio release (2023, colorized)

Context:
https://kolektiva.social/@TheSatanicWiki/109961238695950703

(Did we just spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to change all the swastikas to sun crosses and the Hitler portraits to D'Annunzio ones before giving up and using this version? Yes.)

#Satanism #Boston #SatanCon #SatanCon2023 #NaziSatanistsFuckOff

Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko holds an emergency meeting with #TheSatanicTemple's remaining "international council" in #SalemMA in response to latest audio release (2023, colorized)

Context:
https://kolektiva.social/@TheSatanicWiki/109961238695950703

(Did we just spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to change all the swastikas to sun crosses and the Hitler portraits to D'Annunzio ones before giving up and using this version? Yes.)

#Satanism #Boston #SatanCon #SatanCon2023 #NaziSatanistsFuckOff

Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko holds an emergency meeting with #TheSatanicTemple's remaining "international council" in #SalemMA in response to latest audio release (2023, colorized)

Context:
https://kolektiva.social/@TheSatanicWiki/109961238695950703

(Did we just spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to change all the swastikas to sun crosses and the Hitler portraits to D'Annunzio ones before giving up and using this version? Yes.)

#Satanism #Boston #SatanCon #SatanCon2023 #NaziSatanistsFuckOff

CW: #eugenics, #dysgenics

On Sept. 11, 2003, future co-owner of #TheSatanicTemple Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko, his friend and collaborator Shane Bugbee, and Shane Bugbee's wife Amy Stocky hosted a 24-hour Internet radio stream with guests and callers to mark the release of their new edition of the proto-fascist manifesto "#MightIsRight".

The following year, Doug Misicko continued to appear on Internet radio streams with Shane and Amy.

"The #ABCsOfTheAlphabet" was one such program.

This is an excerpt from one of those recordings.

Via #TheSatanicWiki

CW: #antisemitism, #racism, #HateGroups, #ViolentThreats, #slurs

On Sept. 11, 2003, future co-owner of #TheSatanicTemple Doug "#LucienGreaves" Misicko, his friend and collaborator Shane Bugbee, and Shane Bugbee's wife Amy Stocky hosted a 24-hour Internet radio stream with guests and callers to mark the release of their new edition of the proto-fascist manifesto "#MightIsRight".

The following year, Doug Misicko continued to appear on Internet radio streams with Shane and Amy.

“The #ABCsOfTheAlphabet" was one such program.

This is an excerpt from one of those recordings.

Via #TheSatanicWiki

@TheSatanicWiki #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #LucienGreaves #DougMesner #DougMisicko #AntiBlackRacism #AntiBlack #Racism

=WHAT THE HELL IS "THE SATANIC TEMPLE"?=

So, if that's what The Satanic Temple is *not*, well, what is TST really?

As of 2022, TST is a collection of at least six corporations, four for-profit and two non-profit, with only one of those being a tax-exempt church.

The Temple and its two owners, #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko, describe that church in contradictory ways depending on the venue and most expedient excuse at that moment.

But in March 2012 when the web domains TheSatanicTemple .com and .org, were registered, TST was just a twinkle in the eye of Cevin "#MalcolmJarry" Soling as he imagined a prank documentary about "the nicest Satanic Cult in the world".

Along with friend and collaborator David "Nicholas Crowe" Guinan, Soling used his own company Spectacle Films, Inc. to begin producing this "nice Satanists" movie with the first stunt a public prayer event in Tallahassee, Fla., in January 2013.

Soling had brought his friend Doug Misicko (a.k.a. "#DougMesner"), a self-identified Satanist, in on the project to be an expert and add verisimilitude.

Originally intended to be a role shared by Guinan, Soling, and Misicko, it was Misicko who would eventually step into the "#LucienGreaves" role full time after the first actor—and stunt— flopped.

Through 2013, #TheSatanicTemple muddled through a number of different stunts and contrary postures from "Adopt-a-Highway" to Misicko "teabagging" the grave of the Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps' mother, which got coverage from Vice, HuffPo, and others as a "#PinkMass"

Finally, at the end of the year, Guinan, Misicko, and Soling landed on the stunt that would bring them to lasting national prominence: the promise that they would install their own Baphomet statue opposite a public monument to the 10 Commandments in Oklahoma.

Tens of thousands of dollars in donations followed; the fact that TST never actually sued anyone and the ACLU won the case without any help from the Temple mattered not at all.

The Satanic Temple also made sure that this specific statue design was officially TST's intellectual property and a registered trademark they could sue over.

The Satanic Temple made sure their statue got them into lots of headlines and proceeded to fundraise off of the idea they could counter Christian monuments with the threat of their own statue arriving to guarantee religious plurality was preserved; more money poured in.

In reality, as the prank doc drifted into a project with no end date, #DavidGuinan eventually left it.

Cevin Soling and Doug Misicko embarked together on creating first a for-profit corporation (United Federation of Churches, LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple) then a 501c3 nonprofit (Reason Alliance Ltd.).

Soling would then create another for-profit he solely owned (64 Bridge LLC d/b/a "Salem Art Gallery") to house the statue and charge $8-$12 tickets to come take pictures with it.

You see them on social media all the time, and that's why.

In November 2020, as part of the official depositions for a lawsuit against the city of Belle Plaine, Minn., TST revealed that these ticket sales had since July 2017 brought in at least $182,000.

And that came *after* Misicko got caught lying about an invoice that revealed just how much fundraiser money Misicko had paid himself for the Belle Plaine stunt.

https://queersatanic.com/this-invoice-reveals-the-inner-workings-of-the-satanic-temples-finances/

by the way, if you're wondering why it is that we speak so openly and caustically about The #SatanicTemple, and its co-owners #DougMisicko a.k.a. "#LucienGreaves" and #CevinSoling a.k.a. "#MalcolmJarry", knowing how litigious they are it's because they already tried and failed to hit us with that—twice

The four members of @QueerSatanic currently being dragged thru litigation for 2.5 years and counting as part of a #SLAPP suit keep beating their asses in court because they are as incompetent as they are malicious

https://www.socialactuality.com/post/schism-the-satanic-temple-a-lawsuit-and-the-necessity-of-clear-minded-settlement

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/20/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/

And nothing seems to piss off bullies more than when they take their best shot and you're still standing.

be gay, do crime, and #HailSatan

#DougMisicko, the co-owner of #TST and the face of the org as #LucienGreaves, always characterizes himself as a classical liberal who just cares about #FreeSpeech most of all. That's why TST is constantly siding with and materially supporting fascists, they say.

Well, this is what their free speech looks like.

Note also how these people who whine about getting dox'd when they get caught using undeclared pseudonyms on legal documents turn around and go out of their way to put every single bit of identifying info about their legal targets into the public record as possible.

These fucking ghouls.