Student reaches out to Satanist Temple for postgame prayer

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!!

http://mynorthwest.com/76/2834847/Student-reaches-out-to-Satanist-Temple-for-postgame-prayer

If Christians can pray on the field, so can the Satanists. And that's what one Bremerton High School student wants to do.

Lilith Starr, chapter head for The Satanic Temple of Seattle, told KIRO Radio's Dori Monson that a student gave a formal request for a Satanic invocation on Tuesday morning. Starr said she wouldn't release the student's name, but that the Temple is in the planning stages of the event.

"We will be at Thursday's game doing a postgame Satanic invocation on the field if Coach (Joe) Kennedy continues to pray," she said. "We won't step on the field if he is stopped or doesn't pray."

Coach Kennedy made headlines when it was discovered that his players joined him in postgame prayers after Bremerton High School football games. Students are free to pray as they wish, but teachers and other district staff are usually banned from such activity. Kennedy has reportedly taken legal action against the high school after the school banned him from praying on the field.

I understand the Arizona State Sun Devils and Duke Blue Devils are considering this as well.

[jmowreader]

1. Not the Blue Devils. Duke is a church school.

The Blue Devils were a World War I French Army unit, the Chausseurs Alpins, who dressed all in blue and were a bit more effective than the Germans would have liked. (Okay, scratch that: they kicked the Huns' asses up one side and down the other over and over again.) The Duke teams were named after these guys.

[mikeysnot]

2. Welcome Year Zero