An article by Nick Duffy on PinkNews, dated 23 August 2019, reporting The Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves stating the organization will "fight them to the death to ensure that there are equal rights for the gay community," that a conservative estimate puts more than half the Temple's own membership as LGBTQ, and that the Temple had planned, before same-sex marriage was legalized nationally by the Supreme Court in 2015, to test religious-freedom laws directly by conducting its own same-sex Satanic wedding ceremony.
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Citation
PublisherPinkNews
Publication Year2019
URLhttps://www.thepinknews.com/2019/08/23/the-satanic-temple-is-in-favour-of-equal-rights-for-lgbt-people/
Source Typejournalism
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
An established LGBTQ-focused journalism outlet directly quoting the organization's own co-founder speaking in his official capacity, corroborated the following day by Out.com's independent report of the same statement. NotesCited for The Satanic Temple's sexuality-position and its detail.
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