For Immediate Release:

Satanists Protest The Salvation Army Outside Their Headquarters, Macy’s and Other NYC Lamdmarks, Promote Gay and Trans Rights While Distributing Condoms and Lube

Satanic Activists Protesting The Salvation Army on December 14, 2019. More photos below. Photo owned by lorenyc.com, may be used for any legitimate journalistic purposes.

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Daemon J. Placebo

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Dateline
New York, New York
December 18, 2019

What

This December, under the banner of “The Skeleton Army”, a group of “Satanic activists,” organized by the NYC based League of Rebel Eve (LORE), are handing out flyers, condoms, and lube to raise awareness about the Salvation Army’s discriminatory practices against gay and trans people.

The activist group, setting up in proximity to The Salvation Army’s iconic “bell ringers” and armed with a bell, a cauldron, informational pamphlets and sex aids, are raising awareness about better ways to spend your holiday charity funds, as well as highlighting resources for LGBTQ people in need.

Where/When

Contact Daemon Placebo for assistance meeting up with the group at their remaining protests:
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Sunday Dec 22

1:00 pm ET - 2:00 pm ET

Outside Union Square, NYC Whole Foods

Sunday Dec 22

2:00 pm ET - 3:00 pm ET

Outside The Salvation Army HQ

120 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011

Who

The Skeleton Army theskeletonarmy.org, a group of volunteers organized by The League of Rebel Eve (LORE), a non-theistic polydox collective of Satanists in New York City lorenyc.com

Press Release of LORE’s Founding

https://www.lorenyc.com/writings/2019/8/16/vbum8owi59byw9yipktko6wplbqdhl

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On Saturday, December 14, 2019, in the midst of Santacon, four satanists dressed variously like demons, succubi, or just in brightly colored Lovecraftian holiday sweaters, gathered next to Macy’s historic “Santaland” and set up a cauldron. The activists, members of the self-styled “Skeleton Army,” suspended their cauldron from a tripod and began ringing a bell while hollering, like informational carnival barkers, “Free Santa Con-doms! Support gay and trans rights, not The Salvation Army!”

Two other bells could be heard, one across the street in front of the Old Navy, another a few yards away outside the entrance of Macy’s Santaland, coming from the iconic “Red Bucket” bell ringers stationed by The Salvation Army, a religious organization known for their holiday fundraising, and their anti-trans and LGBTQ practices at their homeless shelters and other facilities designed to evangelize people in desperate need of assistance.

As intoxicated Santacon revelers passed in frenzied, eroticized wolf packs and families of tourists with strollers streamed by in confusion, the activists on Saturday handed out over 100 flyers and as many condoms, spreading the bad news about The Salvation Army’s discriminatory practices. Officially cited in 2017 by the NY Commission on Human Rights, along with other substance abuse centers, for discrimination against trans people, The Salvation Army has denied claims of being prejudiced, while continuing to put religious beliefs before helping those in need.

The Salvation Army’s stance on homosexual and trans people has been a recurring issue during the holiday season for roughly the past decade, rekindled this year with controversies surrounding openly gay Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg volunteering for them in the past and singer Ellie Goulding initially refusing to sing at a Superbowl Halftime show sponsored by the anti-gay religious group.

The Salvation Army constantly denies it has anti-gay and trans policies, posting FAQs such as this. Far from clearing the religious organization’s name, these documents effectively serve as convenient lists of the discriminatory actions by the group, with the Salvation Army clarifying that while these action did happen they were either isolated mistakes or not actually discrimination, as they would define it.

Satanic Activists Protesting The Salvation Army on December 14, 2019. Photo owned by lorenyc.com, may be used for any legitimate journalistic purposes.

Critics clarify that even when facilities run by the Salvation Army do provide vital, emergency services without exerting religious prejudice, the harm done by legislative lobbying wing of the organization far outweighs the good done by the harm reduction side of the group focused on housing and substance abuse assistance.

A Vox article published December 16, 2019 put it succinctly:

“The Salvation Army speaks out of both sides of its mouth,” Meister said. “They’ll deliver services to LGBTQ folks, but on the other side, they are very actively, as a religious organization, opposing marriage rights and a lot of other rights. Transgender issues have been one, particularly, that they have had problems with.”

LGBTQ youth are disproportionately vulnerable to homelessness. A 2017 report by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago found that LGBTQ young adults were 120 percent more likely to experience homelessness than straight, cisgender people in the same age range. The high rates of homelessness among LGBTQ youth are often due to homophobia in their families or in their communities.

“It helps perpetuate discrimination, particularly among youth, particularly among the trans population. It is particularly insidious,” Meister added. “With youth in the transgender population, we already have a very high suicide rate, and the doctrine that they espouse helps contribute to that.”

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