Hartford City Hall just handed us a golden opportunity to expose religious favoritism at its finest. This week, CT News Junkie reported that the Hartford City Council voted 7–2 to fly a Christian flag over City Hall — but when Chaz Stevens, founder of the Church of Satanology, demanded equal treatment, the city quickly backpedaled. City officials, led by Deputy …
In a move only Christian Nationalists could love, Arkansas passed Act 573 this year—a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in every public school classroom. The catch? They have to be donated. Enter Chaz Stevens, the gay atheist troublemaker behind revolt.training. Never one to miss a juicy First Amendment fight, Stevens announced he’s ready to donate 10,000 framed Ten Commandments posters …
In a formal request to Mayor Arunan Arulampalam, Stevens demanded the city also fly his flag, a cleanly designed banner bearing the message: Last week, Hartford raised a Christian flag above City Hall. That move triggered a swift—and legally pointed—response from none other than Dr. T. Chaz Stevens, founder of the Church of Satanology and Perpetual Soirée. “Satan Loves the …
Published July 11, 2022 by Florida Politics. As part of his “Satan or Silence” project, Stevens requested to open a North Lauderdale City Commission meeting with a “Hail Satan” invocation, prompting the city to suspend all invocations rather than allow it. Since 2014, Stevens’ satirical invocation bids have led several Florida cities to drop prayers entirely instead of including a …
Published December 12, 2014 by The Palm Beach Post (via Press Herald). Chaz Stevens, a blogger from Deerfield Beach, doesn’t actually believe in Satan, but he wants to show “how ridiculous it is to pray at City Hall” by delivering a Satanic invocation. “It’s a vehicle to show separation of church and state… My whole point here is to really, …
Published May 15, 2014 by WLRN Public Media. Aiming to poke fun at a Supreme Court ruling allowing prayers at meetings, Stevens asked Deerfield Beach to let him open a commission meeting with a Satanic prayer}. He sees the request as a challenge to church-state entanglement and vowed to sue if denied. Read the entire story here.