In the most recent episode of HBO's #LastWeekTonight with #JohnOliver", he made a mention of a particular publicity stunt by a certain satanic for-profit business-cum-church.

In so doing, he demonstrated perfectly the way #TheSatanicTemple's grift works, and the limitations of "Last Week Tonight" as an actual news program rather than what it is: a popularizer and disseminator of the work done by others.

If the show had done a proper investigation, they would have immediately found huge red flags involving the Temple's clinic that call into question its legitimacy entirely. Since they did not, we'll show you what so many have missed despite being out in the open.

First, we're going to show how at its most basic and fundamental level, the The #SatanicTemple's clinic is vulnerable to any legal challenge or government investigation due to its use of false information in its corporate registration as TST owners #DougMisicko and #CevinSoling continue to inappropriately use pseudonyms on legal documents.

Next, we're going to look at the way the clinic fits into #TST's pattern of claiming it can help people in states with abortion restrictions and bans despite never being able to deliver on that promise, a false claim the Temple literally advertises and profits off of.

Finally, we're going to talk about how the Temple's use of a corporation that has tax-exempt church approval and unwillingness to be financially transparent makes it impossible to keep track of exactly how much money is involved, especially since every role of corporate governance is filled by the same two men, Soling and Misicko, and their pseudonyms.

https://queersatanic.com/what-john-oliver-gets-wrong-about-the-satanic-temple-and-abortion-rights/

#SamuelAlito #SamuelAlitosMomsSatanicAbortionClinic #Abortion #AbortionRights #NewMexico

> But in practice, former members told me, the final say goes to the “executive ministry,” made up of [Doug Misicko] and [Cevin Soling]. Local groups are expected to get clearance from Salem for their events and campaigns, and to pass on a percentage of their revenue.

Today is a good day for The Satanic Temple to release its finances, by the way:
https://queersatanic.com/today-is-a-good-day-for-the-satanic-temple-to-release-its-finances/5/

#DougMisicko #CevinSoling #SalemMA

These are also two people — #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko — who are politically completely opposed to what their popular support imagines them to be.

These are not trolls who are owning Christian Nationalists by exposing their hypocrisy; in fact, The Satanic Temple's two owners unironically want many of the same things as white nationalist reactionaries, such as completely undermining public schools:

https://queersatanic.com/cevin-soling-really-hates-public-schools

@SapphicSelene There are a lot of great people within The Satanic Temple who legitimately are trying to do good work.

Unfortunately, they are wasting their energy and resources supporting a structure designed to extract their labor and funds for the benefit of the two owners #CevinSoling and #DougMisicko, who are just awful people.

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

https://queersatanic.com/cevin-soling-really-hates-public-schools/

https://queersatanic.com/the-cevin-who-would-be-king/

There is a massive overlap between the kind of person who is most threatened by #ChristianNationalism, and the kind of person whom The Satanic Temple would declare it a matter of practicality to threaten into silence for having been disillusioned or victimized by TST locally.

And when you understand that #TheSatanicTemple is designed, on purpose, to only benefit two people — two dipshit Boomers with a history of reactionary, extractive politics — you understand why that overlap isn’t a coincidence, and why the culture that results is only going to hurt more people.

#CevinSoling #DougMisicko

=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/

We say often, "Today is a good day for The Satanic Temple to release its finances."

Because, well, #DougMisicko and #CevinSoling do *shady shit* with their finances.

https://queersatanic.com/today-is-a-good-day-for-the-satanic-temple-to-release-its-finances/5

But sometimes TSTers say the Temple shouldn't release their finances for review if the Christian orgs aren't going to.