In a letter addressed to the State of Mississippi, The Satanic Temple threatens to file a lawsuit against the government over their plans to include the phrase “In God We Trust” on its state flag.

The letter was sent by a law firm, Randazza Legal Group. The legal firm prides itself as one that “proudly serves as First Amendment Counsel to the Satanic Temple,” according to First Amendment lawyer Marc J. Randazza. The firm was lobbying against initial plans by Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves who signed an order that would create a nine-member commission to redesign the Mississippi flag and remove the Confederate flag.

Randazza went on to say that the Satanic Temple approves of the state’s decision to remove the Confederate flag. However, they are adamant about the addition of the phrase in “In God we Trust” to the new design. Randazza argued that “removing one divisive symbol of exclusion only to replace it with a divisive phrase of exclusion does not eliminate exclusion, but rather moves it from one group.”

He also went on to make a ridiculous claim that the Temple’s seven tenets were more in line with the “Mississippian values” as compared to the Ten Commandments. He even added that if the state plans to mention God, Satan should also be included. Finally, Randazza warned that if the state would continue to go with their plan, they would be forced to take legal action over the “exclusionary religious phrase.”

The Temple was founded in 2013 and had since filed several lawsuits that lobbied for the separation of the church and state. In 2018, the organization grabbed headlines after they rallied against the display of the Ten Commandments outside of the Arkansas State Capitol. To attract even more attention, they have eerily placed a statue of children praying to a goat-headed demon named Baphomet.

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In another lawsuit, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit that was filed by a member of the Satanic Temple who hid by the name of Judy Doe against Missouri’s abortion law. Based on state law, women who are undergoing abortion procedures are required to receive a “pamphlet” which says that every human life begins at conception. The lawsuit claims that such a move violates the separation between the church and state.

While the Satanic Temple claimed that they do not worship the Devil, they argued that they embrace Satan as a symbol of rational-inquiry and that their organization is free from centuries of tradition and “superstitious beliefs.”

The Temple’s lawyer, Randazza had also defended other controversial figures such as Alex Jones and the founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.