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A few observations:
1. This article was almost entirely written from the detractor, Dave Kubal's, perspective: here's what I think the people of The Satanic Temple think:
The Salem, Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple, which claims to have more than 1.5 million members worldwide, denies belief in a personal devil, saying its mission is "to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits."Kubal said that "whether or not people believe in satanic power" or claim not to, they really do.
2. I drilled through some links into other Fox News articles looking for details of the "Satanic Abortion Ritual" referenced in the article and finally found this in a Politifact fact check:
To bolster its legal arguments after the Missouri cases, the temple created what it calls a "Satanic abortion ritual," that it says exempts its members "from enduring medically unnecessary and unscientific regulations when seeking to terminate their pregnancy."
The ritual involves reciting two of the temple's seven tenets, which read, "One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone" and "Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs." 3. Does Fox News have a purpose other than fostering rage? And why are their articles written so poorly?
politifact.com - Satanic temples fight over abortion rights ROE v w 