MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – The Satanic Temple of Seattle wants to start an after school program at Centennial Elementary School.

The organization’s ultimate goal is to start an After School Satan Club at all area schools that currently allow the Good News Bible Club, the Skagit Valley Herald reports.

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“It is designed to be a counterpoint to the Good News program,” Satanic Temple campaign manager Tarkus Claypool said.

The Satanic Temple submitted a request to school officials in hopes of starting the Satan club for the upcoming school year and is currently waiting on a response. The group supposedly does not worship Satan, and claims to use the devil to make a point about religious freedom, the Seattle Times reports.

“We’re leveraging equal access,” Claypool said.

“We don’t worship a deity,” he explained. “We only see Satan as a metaphor for fighting religious tyranny and oppression.”

“Our curriculum is about teaching them logic, self-empowerment and reasoning,” Claypool said.

Satanic Temple leader Lilith Starr told the News Tribune the group is also considering after-school programs at Point Defiance Elementary in Tacoma and Brouillet and Fruitland elementary schools in the Puyallup School District, all sites with active Good News Clubs.

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“We’re only going to schools where there is already a Good News Club,” Starr said, adding that Mount Vernon is the group’s first request.

“We would like to expand to other schools this year,” she said. “The program is ready to roll out as soon as we do our first pilot.”

Starr said there’s currently nine After School Satan Clubs in the United States.

Mount Vernon Superintendent Carl Bruner told the Herald the district is “not to the point of ranting access,” but pointed out that he’s bound by the law to allow equal access to all types of organizations.

From the Herald:

A 1991 Supreme Court ruling, Good News Club vs. Milford Central School District, stated that if schools allow any organization to use school property, they must allow all organizations — religious and secular — access, Bruner said.

Since then many districts, including Mount Vernon, have played host to Good News clubs, he said. Although Centennial is the only school hosting the club, other schools in Mount Vernon had done so previously.

“We cannot say ‘no’ to the Good News Bible Club,” Bruner said.

Claypool contends the Satanic Temple submitted the request to start the after school program because a parent complained about the Good News Bible Club using public space at Centennial.

“These children (in the Good News Bible Club), they’re also taught to evangelize to other children,” he groaned. “(The parent) thought this indoctrination on school grounds was inappropriate.”

Bruner said district officials are considering the request, as well as parents’ concerns, and are working with attorneys to explore the best course of action, though he provided no timeline on a possible decision.

“It’s kind of an all-or-nothing deal,” he told the Herald. “Do we want to exclude everyone from use of our public facilities just because of this group that’s trying to make a point?”

According to the News Tribune:

Moises Esteves, vice president of U.S. ministries for Child Evangelism Fellowship, said the Satan clubs are nothing more than “packaging” and a “publicity stunt” from atheists who resent the success of the Good News Clubs.

He said 4,500 of the clubs enroll an estimated 178,000 children around the country and that they are growing in popularity. He cites a recent survey of school principals who praise the clubs for their positive impacts on student behavior.