A chat with Gemini De Chant, furry at The Satanic Temple.
by Patch O'Furr
2025 Editor’s Note: In 2019, the documentary Hail Satan? depicted The Satanic Temple (TST) as a progressive organization taking on political corruption through prankish First Amendment activism. The idea of challenging far-right Christian nationalists with their own tactics is powerful and funny, giving bible-bangers a dose of their own medicine when they shit on the separation of church and state. Satan isn’t real, but American equality should be.
Subsequently, whistleblowers emerged to document the TST as more of a grift than anything that Dogpatch Press wants to support. Using vexatious litigation to punish critics of TST is antithetical to journalism. Of course, news about “satanic furries” also uses creative license for humor and satire. This wasn’t to be taken seriously in the first place. This note was prompted by far-right propaganda fronts doing just that, as if their readers who belong on a short bus should fear a supposed Satanic Furry threat posed by a handful of nerds who enjoy pranks as much as cartoon animals. (Their real reason for quoting Dogpatch Press out of context was hatred of queer people.)
The fundamental enemy here is low literacy; education neutralizes far-right propaganda, and you can learn more about TST from critics like Queer Satanic (who keep beating TST in court) or this expose by Dead Domains. The 2019 article follows. – Patch
Hot off the press! Yesterday’s article about furries and Satan was inspired by the documentary Hail Satan? — available online next week, July 23.
I saw it in May and mentioned it to Deo Tasdevil, who surprised me with a story about being welcomed by The Satanic Temple to fursuit at their Baphomet unveiling party in Detroit. They even specifically welcomed animal costumes.
Watch the movie to see their Baphomet statue made to be placed at Oklahoma’s capital. It was a free speech/equal access counter action to a Ten Commandments monument that was put on public property despite separation of church and state.
Deo Tasdevil. Did she sell her soul to them, or did they sell theirs to her?