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Posted on 10/02/2002 1:37:41 PM PDT by FormerLurker
Protest of school Satanic club a flop
By T.S. Mills-Faraudo
STAFF WRITER
SAN MATEO -- Police came to San Mateo High School Tuesday prepared to deal with a rally of parents protesting the school's backing of a club based on Satanism.
But the officers milling around the school's performing arts center were left with nothing to do.
While the new club called The Satanic Thought Society has received attention nationwide, there's been little brouhaha locally over the group started by two 10th-graders who just wanted to stir up controversy and study an alternative religion.
Parent Pam Cachay organized the lunch-hour rally, expecting 50 people to show up in an effort to dismantle the club, devoted to the study of the teachings of Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan.
Cachay was stunned to find no one picketing.
The club, however, is receiving attention throughout the country.
An article about the club that appeared in The Times Friday was posted on the nationally known Web site, The Drudge Report. Since then, The Times has received more than 100 e-mails from all over the country. Cachay has been contacted by newspeople from MSNBC and Fox News Network.
She says she plans to send her daughter to another school because of the club.
"They (club members) say they're not practicing rituals. Not yet," Cachay said. "When you start choosing to worship darkness, there's something wrong there."
But San Mateo Union High School District superintendent Tom Mohr as well as the club's founders have said it is not about devil worship.
"I wanted to make it clear that these kids are being supervised properly and they have an outstanding adviser," Mohr said.
Following his adviser's suggestion, club co-founder Matt Heeney declined to comment Tuesday.
THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT IS CONSIDERED "ACCEPTABLE" BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
Obviously this isn't being reported a whole bunch. If you notice, this has been removed from breaking news...
Semper Fi
How exactly is that going to happen? This trash fizzling out I mean?
Oh well, at least it got moved to Front Page news. It could have been gone altogether...
Sounds like everybody's getting hyped-up over 1 Mom protesting 2 kids who are pulling a prank.
Are you saying that it should be perfectly OK for a school to back a club that studies satanism? What if the school backed a club that was to study Christianity or Judaism, would you be perfectly OK with that? Would a school even ALLOW a club like that to exist on their property, and if it did, how long would it last before the atheists (and satanists) screamed bloody murder?
BTW, it was FOUNDED by two kids who wanted to start a club that studied the SATANIC BIBLE. You see, Anton LeVey is the FOUNDER of the Church of Satan, and his teachings include the Satanic Bible.
I'm saying this is a nonevent.
Ignore them and the kids will go back to worrying about their acne.
I'd say this is an OVERT acceptance of the perceived legitimacy of the satanic religion. It apparently enjoys more protection than Christianity in the eyes of the government. You do know that kids can't even mention the word Christmas at Christmas time don't you? It's because it has the word Christ in it. They are forced to call Christmas the Holdays, and are subjected to the tenants of Kwanza. That was just a warmup of what is to come apparently.
Ignore them and the kids will go back to worrying about their acne.
I HIGHLY doubt that, as this is MUCH more prevalent than you might think.
I'd say that the co-founder might have been born Jewish, but has apparently converted to a different belief system...
One thing to look for is the sudden disappearances of pets. Another would be the increase in disappearances of young children.
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