Schools receive request for after-school 'Satan Club'
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After-school clubs appear to be the next venture of a national group that sought to install a statue of Satan outside two state capitols to protest Christian monuments on public grounds.
The Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple sent emails this week seeking to start clubs in nine school districts where religious groups offer after-school programs, most by the Child Evangelism Fellowship.
Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves says the program would show "that people can be of different religious opinions and still be moral, upright people."
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Several districts said they were reviewing the group's request. They noted their facilities were available to community groups.
A Christian legal aid group that has represented the Child Evangelism Fellowship says Greaves' group is an "atheist group masquerading" as religious.