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I noticed there wasn't a TST Lemmy community. The Satanic Temple is a modern satanic religion that aims to promote human rights and compassion. Check out their about page on their official website at https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us. Note that this community is not an official affiliation. TST is also separate and not affiliated with the Church of Satan, who have a slightly different viewpoint of what satanism truly is. Dunno what to post in here, but maybe some will search for this and take part. Hello!
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shocked they actually arrested him. will be even more shocked if he gets anything close to the punishment he earned
A 4th degree misdemeanor is nothing! I doubt if someone messed up a Jesus Nativity set they would get that
Idk, a precedent has been set now. Lawyers could just refer back to this case, no?
What is the precedent? "Unlike crimes against any other religion, hate crimes against satanism is not a hate crime"?
Seems like America has basically said:
"hate crimes against religious iconography isn't a hate crime"
It's a huge can of worms that they opened, and basically shit all over everything people fought against in WWII.
Pretty sure it also just wiped out a few US fundamental freedoms too.
So, either this goes up the chain to punish the guy appropriate, or the USA is in for some real heated bullshit in the near future.
Burning down a church with nobody in it is a hate crime. Where is the line? Is it destruction of real property? Is it a monetary threshold? I don't know the answer, but it is definitely a huge can of worms.
I keep seeing this precedent argument and this is exactly what I think every time.
If anything I see someone TRYING to use this case as a precedent to swerve hate crime charges and it gets used to declare Satanism not a recognized religion.
good for you