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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Satanic Temple Says Its Members Can Ignore Indiana's Fetal Burial Law
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that an Indiana law (signed by then-Governor Mike Pence) requiring abortion clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains could stay in place. Its nothing more than a medically unnecessary obstacle that creates the illusion that fetal remains are equivalent to a person.
Now The Satanic Temple has issued a statement saying its members dont have to follow that law.
In other words, theyre using their new status as an IRS-approved religious organization to create a faith-based exemption to the new rule, citing one of their seven fundamental tenets.
Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves added that the Indiana law clearly places an undue burden on the religious practices of The Satanic Temple by interfering with burial rites It would be profoundly hypocritical for any Church that advocates for religious rights not to support our claim.
The Temple has provided a letter to give to a physician explaining the exemption:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wirytwhfi9b0nep/Indiana%20Fetal%20Letter.pdf?dl=0
Now The Satanic Temple has issued a statement saying its members dont have to follow that law.
In other words, theyre using their new status as an IRS-approved religious organization to create a faith-based exemption to the new rule, citing one of their seven fundamental tenets.
Link to tweet
One of The Satanic Temples fundamental tenets is the inviolability of ones body. Members of The Satanic Temple believe that non-viable fetal tissue is part of the woman who carries it, and as such, state impositions of ceremonial requirements dictating its disposal, barring any plausible medical or sanitary concerns, is a violation of TSTs Free Exercise allowing Satanists to contextualize the termination of a pregnancy on their own terms, with deference to their own religion beliefs. As such, TST affirms that this rule violates their religious beliefs and asserts that their members may refuse to adhere.
Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves added that the Indiana law clearly places an undue burden on the religious practices of The Satanic Temple by interfering with burial rites It would be profoundly hypocritical for any Church that advocates for religious rights not to support our claim.
To be clear, members of The Satanic Temple will not be made to pay for these punitive, superfluous, and insulting burials. We claim exemption on religious liberty grounds, and we will almost certainly prevail in the courts if we are forced to fight. Its time that petty sanctimonious panderers like Vice President Mike Pence come to realize that religious liberty means freedom from unreasonable government imposition upon religious opinion and practice not his own freedom to impose a particular religiously-dictated practice upon the electorate whom he serves, said Greaves.
The Temple has provided a letter to give to a physician explaining the exemption:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wirytwhfi9b0nep/Indiana%20Fetal%20Letter.pdf?dl=0
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/05/29/the-satanic-temple-says-its-members-can-ignore-indianas-fetal-burial-law/
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The Satanic Temple Says Its Members Can Ignore Indiana's Fetal Burial Law (Original Post)
ehrnst
May 2019
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LonePirate
(13,448 posts)1. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Or something like that. I suppose. Why should fundies have a monopoly on these bullshit religious freedoms declarations?
csziggy
(34,141 posts)2. I don't belong to any organized religion and object to the law
But it will not affect me personally since I don't live in Indiana and I no longer have the parts for child bearing.
I don't even believe in ritualized burial for adult humans, why would I agree with it for fetal remains?
Ohiogal
(32,213 posts)3. Let's see if
these "Religious Liberty" zealots can agree to liberty for ALL religions, not just Christian.