After-School Satan Club Gets School Room for Afternoon Meetings

A Pennsylvania school district must allow a Satanic youth group to use a middle school classroom to hold three organizational meetings in May, a federal court said.

The evidence showed that the school district’s decision to rescind the permission it gave the group to use the room was likely based on unconstitutional considerations, the opinion by Judge John M. Gallagher of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said Monday.

The Saucon Valley School District initially approved the use of the classroom by the After School Satan Club, but rescinded it after a vocal rebuke by the ...