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But often overlooked in that long tradition of local subcultures is the emergence of America’s first official satanic church, which was founded right here in San Francisco. [baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From its beginnings in a black Victorian house in the Richmond District, to its rapid growth that may have helped kick off a wave of “satanic panic” across the country, the story of the Church of Satan is filled with lust, intrigue and a fair amount of theatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>A born showman\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can’t describe the \u003ca href=\"https://www.churchofsatan.com/\">Church of Satan\u003c/a> without talking about the man who was its founder and central figure for decades, and who even posthumously is probably still the most iconic Satanist. Anton Szandor LaVey was born Howard Stanton Levey in Chicago in 1930. His family moved to the Bay Area when he was still a child, and he \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20120314024245/http://www.pacificsun.com/story.php?story_id=2313\">supposedly attended Tamalpais High School\u003c/a> in Mill Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a young age, LaVey had an interest in magic, the supernatural, and the idea of trickery. In a 1993 documentary about him called “\u003ca href=\"https://mubi.com/en/us/films/speak-of-the-devil\">Speak of the Devil\u003c/a>,” LaVey describes how fascinated he was as a little kid when a friend showed him a copy of the Johnson and Smith Company’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Smith_Company\">novelty catalog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It was] filled with all of these jokes, tricks, and books on forbidden subjects,” LaVey said. “It had all the most horrid examples of man’s inhumanity to man, all of course presented in the form of good fun and entertainment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey got his own copy of the catalog, and ordered several novelty trick toys from it, including a ‘recorder box’ that would stab a sharp needle into the finger of an unsuspecting victim when a button was pushed. LaVey said he felt the trick was too mean to play on his own friends, but he didn’t feel bad about handing the toy over to a bully. That distinction was perhaps a precursor to the later development of his satanic philosophy, which advocates for bestowing kindness on those who deserve it, but seeking revenge on those who wrong you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That curious nature led LaVey to pursue somewhat unusual jobs. He claimed to have joined the circus at 16, where he said he’d worked with the big cats as a “cage boy.” Likewise, he said he’d done stints as a psychic investigator, paranormal researcher, and hypnotist. He also claimed to have briefly been a crime scene photographer for the SFPD, although there are no official records to back that up.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan\"]‘All religions are based on abstinence instead of indulgence. All religions therefore have to be based on fear. Well, we don’t feel that fear is necessary to base a religion on.’[/pullquote]Some have suggested that LaVey may have embellished some details of his early life, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.churchofsatan.com/history-anton-szandor-lavey/\">The Church of Satan, on its site, contends it has evidence\u003c/a> to support his claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey is also known to have worked as an organist and musician and performed at clubs around San Francisco beginning in the late 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the early 1950s, he was already cultivating the kind of dark aesthetic and occult interests that would lead him to found his church. In 1956, he purchased a Victorian house at 6114 California Street, a few blocks from the edge of the Presidio near the center of San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood, and painted it black. The house had a brick staircase leading up to the front door, with a parlor and a bar downstairs. The room that would become the primary ritual chamber contained a large mantle piece, one that would be featured prominently in future ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Church of Satan sort of grew out of what he called the Magic Circle,” said Blanche Barton, who is the current \u003ca href=\"https://www.churchofsatan.com/history-blanche-barton/\">Magistra Templi Rex\u003c/a> — a ranking member — of the Church of Satan, and one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Satanist-Authorized-Biography/dp/1627310029/churchofsatan\">LaVey’s biographers\u003c/a> and a former lover, with whom he had his only son: Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton says LaVey surrounded himself with friends who shared similar interests. “They were all intrigued by the weird and the unexplained. They started having soirées and that sort of led into ritualizing to see, practically, what happens or if anything happens,” she said. “[LaVey] started presenting seminars on the various topics that he was interested in, from vampires to cannibalism — everything weird and wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964952\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11964952 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white close up image of a man wearing a hooded cloak with devil horns. He is holding the point of a sword in front of his face. He casts a shadow onto the wall behind him, which features a large pentagram.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-2048x1370.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton LaVey poses in his Black House in 1967. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>‘First year of the reign of Satan’\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1966, the Church of Satan was officially launched and its congregation was comprised of a handful of people in LaVey’s inner circle. They gathered in his home — which was by then known as “The Black House” — on the night of April 30 to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, a German holiday with pagan origins that’s sometimes called the “night of the witches.” The holiday is, ironically, on the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, which commemorates the saint who is believed to offer protection from witchcraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey ritualistically shaved his head in the tradition of medieval executioners and dark magicians and declared 1966 to be the “first year of the reign of Satan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To attract followers to the church outside of his exclusive group of like-minded parishioners, LaVey quickly began spreading word of his satanic philosophy through public speaking engagements and by inviting reporters — and whoever else had interest — into his Black House to witness satanic rituals and masses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rituals themselves were a highly theatrical affair, akin to performance art, featuring satanic iconography and moody organ music. LaVey would wear a hooded cloak with devil horns and a pentagram medallion while invoking the many names of the devil. He’d often wield a sword or sometimes a large snake while a nude woman was draped over an altar in the house’s ritual chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanche Barton says the aesthetics of Satanism were rooted in LaVey’s artistic nature: He was a painter, sculptor and musician, who just happened to have a penchant for dark things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examples of the early rituals he led can be seen in the 1970 documentary, “\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/satanis-the-devils-mass-1970\">Satanis: The Devil’s Mass,\u003c/a>” which chronicles the early years of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most amusing parts of the film, almost endearing, is when they go out and talk to the neighbors,” Barton said. “And it’s pretty funny. You know, they say that they see the nude people dancing around in the front. And they saw the lion … eating something! Really quite devilish and intriguing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964956\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-800x759.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of a man with dark curly hair and a goatee seated cross legged on the floor of a room. In front of him is a lion cub, which looks at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-800x759.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-1020x967.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-1536x1457.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton LaVey, founder and self-proclaimed high priest of the Church of Satan, is photographed at home in San Francisco with his pet lion on June 26, 1964. \u003ccite>(Art Frisch/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s right — LaVey actually owned a 500-pound pet lion named Togare, who he’d raised from a cub, and who lived with him in the Black House and slept in his bedroom at night. In the late 1960s, when his neighbors successfully petitioned to have the lion removed, Lavey ended up giving his oversized pet to actress Tippi Hedren, who starred in “The Birds,” and had founded (and apparently still lives on) \u003ca href=\"https://www.shambala.org/about.htm\">a big cat sanctuary\u003c/a> in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey soon became a well-known personality throughout California and increasingly nationwide, largely supporting himself by collecting church initiation fees and doing paid public speaking engagements. He was frequently interviewed in print publications and on TV, including on \u003cem>The Tonight Show\u003c/em>. Even people who seemed to despise his ideology wanted to talk to him — as is evident in this interview with antagonistic talk show host Joe Pyne:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Kqb54soKU8M?si=mX0JQztCFy7tjOj2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wide variety of people were drawn to LaVey’s dark charm and hedonistic philosophy that promoted a guilt-free, indulgent lifestyle. The church is rumored to have drawn in several notable celebrities in its early years, including Sammy Davis Jr. and Liberace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4718112/Hollywood-Satanist-Bizarre-Jayne-Mansfield-Anton-LaVey.html\">developed a friendship\u003c/a> with blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, an actress, nightclub entertainer and Playboy playmate, and the mother of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay. There was even speculation that Mansfield’s death in 1967, a year after meeting LaVey, was the result of a curse he is believed to have placed on the driver of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, LaVey openly courted controversy. In 1967, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SFGate/videos/anton-lavey-oversees-a-satanic-wedding-ceremony-in-san-francisco/10156878589425594/\">publicized and officiated a satanic wedding\u003c/a> between a New York socialite and a journalist. He also performed satanic funerals for servicemen in the Bay Area, at the request of their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time he started the church, LaVey had divorced his first wife and became involved with another woman, with whom he had a daughter, his second child. In 1967, he baptized the 3-year-old girl into the church, dedicating her to Satan as she sat in a hooded robe next to the nude altar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964962\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-800x923.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hooded devil costume kneels in front of a large brick fireplace. A blonde woman kneels to his right. They are both reaching up towards a small girl wearing a hooded robe, who sits on the edge of the mantle, over which is draped a nude woman. A large pentagram featuring the head of Baphomet is painted on the wall behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-800x923.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-1020x1176.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-160x185.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-1332x1536.jpg 1332w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-1776x2048.jpg 1776w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton Szandor LaVey, the leader of the First Church of Satan, taps his gum-chewing 3-year-old daughter, Zeena Galatea LaVey, on the head with a sword during “baptism ceremonies” in San Francisco on May 23, 1967. A naked woman reclines on the altar during the anti-religious ceremony. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Satanic Bible\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1969, LaVey published \u003ca href=\"https://www.harvard.com/book/the_satanic_bible/\">The Satanic Bible\u003c/a>, outlining his philosophy and detailing the official tenets of his church. At the core are \u003ca href=\"https://www.churchofsatan.com/nine-satanic-statements/\">the 9 Satanic Statements\u003c/a>, the last of which is: “Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here LaVey refers to the Christian Church, which he said he found hypocritical for its denial of human nature. “No religion had ever been based on man’s carnal needs or his fleshly pursuits,” he said, in a 1970 interview. “All religions are based on abstinence instead of indulgence. All religions therefore have to be based on fear. Well, we don’t feel that fear is necessary to base a religion on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word Satan means adversary, he explained. “I’m supplying a much-needed opposition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the nine statements begin with “Satan represents…” Many people incorrectly assume that Satanists worship the devil. In fact, the Church of Satan’s official position is that the devil doesn’t exist at all. It’s an atheistic religion — really more like a philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Satanic Bible tries to advocate is independent study, not worship,” Blanche Barton, his biographer and former lover, said. “There is no dogma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey’s philosophy grew in popularity throughout the 1970s. But even as the church continued to openly insist that it didn’t worship or believe in the devil, a centuries-old fear inevitably came bubbling to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The satanic panic\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beginning in the 1980s, and lasting through the 1990s, LaVey’s church spurred a national wave of fear and conspiracy theories around “satanic cults,” resulting in over 12,000 unsubstantiated claims of satanic ritual abuse and crimes, many centered around children, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/satanic-panic.html\">according to the New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of high-profile court cases drew national headlines during this period of “satanic panic.” One notorious case in the early 1980s — the \u003ca href=\"https://famous-trials.com/mcmartin/902-home\">McMartin Preschool trial\u003c/a> in Manhattan Beach in Southern California — originated from a mother’s claim that her son had been sexually abused by his preschool, which she accused of being run by Satanists.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Blanche Barton, LaVey's biographer (and former lover)\"]‘What the Satanic Bible tries to advocate is independent study, not worship. There is no dogma.’[/pullquote]That incited a set of increasingly bizarre claims of satanic child abuse and led to hundreds of children being interrogated by state investigators over allegations that they had been forced to do things like drink the blood of sacrificed animals or dig up graves. The mother who made the initial claim was later found to be prone to schizophrenic delusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapes of the children’s interviews were reviewed by a clinical psychologist who said they were coercive and extremely suggestive, leading children to give the answers the interviewers wanted to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate trials over the course of seven years resulted in no convictions. And at a cost of $15 million, it became the most expensive criminal trial in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other similar cases resulted in actual convictions, a large number of them in the state of Texas. Most, however, were ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/24/accused-of-satanism-they-spent-21-years-in-prison-they-were-just-declared-innocent-and-were-paid-millions/\">overturned\u003c/a> due to lack of evidence, sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/10/26/how-satanic-panic-led-a-10-year-old-son-to-falsely-accuse-his-father/\">decades later\u003c/a> after the convicted parties had served \u003ca href=\"https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-04-11/after-30-years-a-father-is-exonerated-in-satanic-panic-case\">years in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accusations weren’t lobbed directly at the Church of Satan, but the group was sometimes cited by police as having an influence on the spread of the ideology — as is the case in this \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/LawEnforcementGuideToSatanicCults1994VHSOccultHilarity\">police training video\u003c/a>. Filmed in San Francisco in the early 1990s, the video includes stereotypical claims about crimes Satanists might commit, from cannibalism and necrophilia to corpse theft and black market baby sales — despite any evidence of the church ever doing or condoning such things.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Fate of the Black House\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Blanche Barton moved to San Francisco in 1984 at the age of 22 and became romantically involved with LaVey that same year. Five years later, Barton moved into the Black House with LaVey, who sold it to pay off debts, but continued renting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton says, like so many other San Francisco Victorians, the house itself had a long and interesting history dating back to its construction in 1887.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had trapdoors and it had been used as a [brothel] and a speakeasy,” she said, “It had a bar downstairs. It had secret passageways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A mean in a hooded devil costume and cloak emerges from a secret passage way in the fireplace of a a room in his house. There are bookshelves above hi, and a human skeleton mounted in a large display case on the wall to the right.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, rises out from a hidden corridor behind a false fireplace in his study in 1967. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LaVey died from heart disease on Oct. 29, 1997, at the age of 67, although according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/11/09/anton-s-lavey-dies-at-67/c546b323-acb9-463e-ad96-7da298f9e4d8/\">obituary in \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, his death certificate listed him as dying several days later, on Halloween. He left behind three children, all from different women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leadership of the church was eventually turned over to longtime church member Peter Gilmore, who still serves as its high priest. The church’s headquarters have since been moved to New York state, where Gilmore and his partner Peggy Nadramia built a new “Black House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton said she and a group of followers attempted to raise money to buy LaVey’s house back so that it could be preserved as a museum, but those efforts ultimately failed, and the house was eventually sold and torn down in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so much a part of his soul,” said Barton, “And as he said, ‘The roots went all the way to hell.’ So he was able to be there until the last, which was great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What now stands in its place is a rather normal-looking beige apartment building, devoid of any signs that it was once the site of a satanic sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>If you visited San Francisco’s Richmond District before 2001, and made your way to 6114 California Street, you would have found yourself facing a tall Victorian house that was entirely \u003ci>black.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attention grabbing paint scheme for sure. But it’s what happened inside The Black House that truly intrigued curious San Francsicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first headquarters of the Church of Satan … and the personal home of its founder Anton LaVey. His theatrical nature, and controversial beliefs, turned him into a kind of celebrity… here he is in an interview in 1970…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joe Pyne:\u003c/b> Who ordained you a atanic priest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey:\u003c/b> I would say, probably, I received the call. Just as any fundamentalist—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> Well most of us do, but we fight it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> Why fight it? This is, of course, the whole principle of my religion. All—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> What do you mean you received the call? You mean one day the devil said “Go out, Anton Szandor LaVey, and give people hell!” [audience laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> That’s about it. That’s about it. Because people like to have a hell of a time, don’t they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Spooky music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> How did the Church of Satan get its start in San Francisco? And what was it like to live in the Black House with the so-called “Black Pope” himself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to the third installment of Boo Curious! This October we’re bringing you stories about the creepy, the eerie, the misunderstood places around the Bay Area. Today, we explore what was going on inside that Black House. And who, really, was Anton LaVey?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> Well listen, I’d tell you where to go, but you’d enjoy it… [audience laughs] We’ll be back with another guest…(fade under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Now stay close, you don’t want to get lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[spooky laugh]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b> We sent producer Amanda Font to make a deal with the devil, and learn more about The Black House, and the Church of Satan’s larger-than-life founder…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>The Bay Area is often associated with countercultural movements. You had the beat poets of the 1950s getting arrested for protesting censorship, the free-loving hippies of the 1960s dropping acid in the park, and the Black Panthers in the 1970s fighting back against institutional racism. What you don’t often hear about alongside those other cultural phenomena is that the late 1960s in San Francisco also gave rise to the notorious, indulgent, and wickedly provocative Church of Satan. [\u003ci>demonic vocal effect on “Church of Satan”]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>In this case, when we use the word “church,” it might not be exactly what you’re picturing. They do describe themselves as a religious organization, but there aren’t a lot of physical church buildings associated with Satanism. It’s more like an organization of like-minded people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the black heart of the church, and perhaps still the most recognizable Satanist, was its founder Anton Szandor LaVey. He was born Howard Stanton Levey in Chicago in 1930, and later his family moved to the Bay Area. From a young age, he had a fascination with the supernatural, magic and the idea of trickery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]: \u003c/b>When I was about 5 years old, I had a friend that had a catalog from the Johnson and Smith company, filled with all of these jokes, tricks, and books on forbidden subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>This is a clip of LaVey from a 1993 documentary about him called “Speak of the Devil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]:\u003c/b> It had all the most horrid examples of man’s inhumanity to man, all of course presented in the form of good fun and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Like a toy “recorder box,” that, when you pushed a button, would stab a sharp needle into the finger of an unsuspecting victim. LaVey recalls he didn’t want to play such a mean trick on his friends… but he didn’t mind if it was a kid who was a bully. A similar thought came into play later, when he developed his satanic philosophy. It’s big on the idea of being kind to those who deserve it, but seeking revenge on those who wrong you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he got older, LaVey’s curious nature led him to pursue somewhat unusual jobs. In his early life, he claimed to have worked in a circus with big cats, as a psychic investigator, an organist, a hypnotist, and to have been a police photographer for the SFPD (although there are no official records to back that last one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1956, a decade before he officially created the Church of Satan, he was already cultivating the kind of dark aesthetic that people would come to know him for. LaVey bought the Victorian house at 6114 California Street and painted it black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> And as he said, the roots went all The way to hell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b> This is Blanche Barton…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> I am the current Magistra Templi Rex of the Church of Satan. I’ve been a member of the organization. Wow, almost 50 years now. And I was a high priestess for a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>She also was Anton LaVey’s romantic partner for 13 years, and they had a child together. Blanche, or Magistra Barton has written two books about the Church of Satan, including a biography of Anton LaVey called “The Secret Life of a Satanist,” and “The Church of Satan: A History of the World’s Most Notorious Religion.” Blanche says even before the house became a satanic sanctuary, like so many old San Francisco Victorians, the house itself had an interesting history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> It was Built in 1887, as far as the stories go, by a Scottish sea captain. And there were timbers in the lower levels that had come to San Francisco During the gold rush, and it had trapdoors and it had been used as a whorehouse and a speakeasy. It had a bar downstairs. It had secret passageways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>When he purchased the house in ‘56, LaVey lived there with his first wife and their young daughter, Karla. And as his interests in the supernatural deepened, he surrounded himself with a group of friends who were curious about the same things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>The Church of Satan, sort of grew out of what he called the Magic Circle. They were all intrigued by the weird and the unexplained. They started sort of having soirees and that sort of led into ritualizing, to see, practically, what happens or if anything happens. He started presenting seminars on the various topics that he was interested in from, vampires to cannibalism. Everything weird and wonderful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[spooky music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font:\u003c/b> And in 1966, the people in that magic circle became the first members of the Church of Satan… picture it… a dark night, April 30th, Walpurgisnacht — a German holiday with Pagan origins, sometimes called “The night of the witches.” On that night Anton LaVey ritualistically shaved his head in the tradition of medieval executioners and dark magicians, adopting the look he’d have for the rest of his life, and declared 1966 to be the first year of the reign of Satan, thus founding America’s first official Satanic church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from there, it became a kind of hit…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[swinging music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey claimed that the church had hundreds of members in San Francisco and thousands throughout the world. He was a natural showman, with his shiny polished bald head, black goatee, and intense eyes. He wore all black, a long cloak, large rings, a pentagram medallion, and would make appearances wearing a hooded devil costume with little horns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a 500-pound pet lion named Togare who he’d raised from a cub, that slept in his bedroom at night. He invited reporters and the public inside the Black House to attend Satanic Mass…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[Archival recording of Satanic Mass]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…Where he’d invoke the devil while wielding a large sword or sometimes a boa constrictor while a nude woman was draped across the altar in the ritual chamber. He even married people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip of LaVey marrying couple:\u003c/b> “Former New York socialite Judith Chase and John Raymond were joined in unholy wedlock before a live altar, a nude redhead. Self-ordained sorcerer/minister Anton Levey presided at the San Francisco ceremony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>The media absolutely ate it up. They started calling him the Black Pope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip of LaVey marrying couple:\u003c/b> “As the worst man looks on, the blessings of Lucifer and Beelzebub are invoked. The elaborate rite smacked of publicity, because next day the bride and groom secured a conventional wedding license”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>LaVey was charismatic and people seemed to gravitate to him. He became a kind of overnight celebrity. He was interviewed on national television, in magazines, people across the country were seeing his face. Even people who seemed to \u003ci>hate\u003c/i> him wanted to interview him… Like talk show host Joe Pyne…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> Are you married?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> Oh yes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> You have any little devils?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> Oh yes. I have two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb> Pyne: \u003c/b>Are you gonna raise them as satanic kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> Certainly, but not to go around chopping people up as sacrificing human beings just to—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne: \u003c/b> That would be the greatest reward of all. If your kids some night would creep in and set fire to you and your lion, then dance around with pitchforks saying “Hey look at daddy, look at daddy!” (audience laughs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>But it seemed like all kinds of people were at least curious about the church. At one time, Sammy Davis Jr. and Liberace were linked to the Church of Satan. In 1966 the actress Jayne Mansfield met LaVey at a film festival in San Francisco and they began an unlikely friendship. There are numerous photos of them together, even performing a ritual at Mansfield’s home, though Mansfield said she was a Catholic and simply found LaVey intriguing. Some people blame her untimely death in a car crash a year later on an alleged curse LaVey put on the driver of the car… but who’s to say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Controversies made the news. Famously, in 1967 he baptized his then 3-year-old daughter Zeena into the church, dedicating her to Satan while her mother, LaVey’s 2nd partner Diane Hegarty, looked on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival clip of LaVey baptizing Zeena: \u003c/b>In the name of our great god, Satan Lucifer, I command thee to come forth an bestow these blessings upon us…(fades down and LaVey continues)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>So how much of LaVey’s highly theatrical image was serious? Well, while much of the ritualizing was akin to performance art, he was sincere in his philosophy. LaVey published “The Satanic Bible,” which by now has sold over a million copies, outlining his beliefs. The number one sin in Satanism is stupidity or willful ignorance. Herd conformity is also up there. He founded the Church of Satan as an alternative to what he saw as the repression of many other mainstream religions. Denying human nature, he said, was the real sin. Indulgence is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]:\u003c/b> No religion had ever been based on man’s carnal needs or his fleshly pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>This is a clip of LaVey from a documentary filmed in those first few years of the church called “Satanis: The Devil’s Mass”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]:\u003c/b> All religions are based on abstinence instead of indulgence. All religions therefore have to be based on fear. Well, we don’t feel that fear is necessary to base a religion on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Not everyone was a fan, of course. He was telling people to embrace their animal nature… give in to their dark and lustful desires. Christian groups were appalled, obviously, and what about the neighbors? Here’s Blanche Barton again…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> One of the most amusing parts of the film, almost endearing, is when they go out and talk to the neighbors. And it’s pretty funny. You know, they say that they see the nude people dancing around in the front. And they saw the lion — eating something! Really quite, quite devilish and intriguing. (laughs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>[Clip from ‘Satanis: The Devil’s Mass]\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Neighbor 1:\u003c/b> He’s been in the neighborhood about 14 years and I always knew him as Tony. Just a nice ordinary — well — a little more dramatic than most men in the neighborhood, perhaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Neighbor 2:\u003c/b> Actually I don’t know what kind of man he is. As soon as you meet him, you think he’s a very very nice man, you know. I just had a feeling I can trust him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Neighbor 3:\u003c/b> (grumbling) A very undesirable type of a neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Neighbors successfully petitioned to have LaVey’s pet lion relocated in the late 60s. He first landed in a zoo, then ended up at a big cat sanctuary in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the goings on at the church, the nude rituals, wild events, blaspheming…well, freedom of religion! They weren’t doing anything illegal. Still, by the 70s, LaVey had stopped inviting the press in for all the rituals, instead focusing more on cultivating new members. He was living in a world of his own aesthetic making, which is a primary tenet of his satanic philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> Anton Levey was first and foremost an artist. He felt that aesthetics, whatever you are most drawn to, is what you should use. If you’re really excited about Frankenstein or if you are very drawn to technology. Because what you do in the ritual chamber is you’re evoking your emotions. Nothing comes from outside. It’s not coming from Satan or demons or anything. But we know the power that Humans have for creating a world and a life for yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>LaVey was making a living through the church, taking speaking engagements and charging initiation fees for new members. He also sometimes worked as an organist at local clubs. He spent more of his time making art, and music, another passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>He got the most joy out of playing. Keyboards because he could control the entire orchestra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Clip of Anton LaVey playing keyboards]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>He even pressed a record. Much of it includes recordings of early satanic masses, but also just, you know, some songs…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Anton LaVey singing a song called ‘Honolulu Baby’]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>His specific aesthetics were very much in the forties. A lot of the precepts of Satanism that he developed are very much, sort of, grounded in his creative self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Anton LaVey singing, music fades out]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> And then in the Eighties, there was the Satanic Panic going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font:\u003c/b> In the 1980s and through the 90s there was a national wave of fear that “Satanic Cults” were taking over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from training video: \u003c/b>Anton LaVey, perhaps the best-known Satanist in America compiled his years of cult knowledge into two books: the Satanic Bible, and the Satanic Rituals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>This is from an hourlong police training video from 1993, filmed in San Francisco, that was created to teach law enforcement how to spot satanic symbols and investigate “satanic crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from training video:\u003c/b> Now remember, not all satanic people commit crimes. Some of their activities may be perfectly legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>It has all the highly stereotypical suggestions about what kinds of \u003ci>illegal\u003c/i> activities Satanists might engage in….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from training video: \u003c/b>Murder, which might include human sacrifice, or mass murders or cannibalism…(fade under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Some of them, frankly, are pretty macabre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from training video:\u003c/b> Corpse theft, cemetery vandalism, black market sales of bones and skulls, black market baby selling…(fade under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Dramatic music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>To be clear, these things weren’t happening. It’s kind of funny now, especially set to\u003ci> that \u003c/i>music, but at that time the fear that these things \u003ci>were actually\u003c/i> happening was intense. Through the 80s and 90s upwards of 10-thousand unsubstantiated claims of ritualistic abuse by supposed satanic cults were made, though not directly against the Church of Satan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was happening in California, and all over the United States. It was like the witch trials all over again. There were numerous high-profile cases where people were convicted of satanic crimes, only to be exonerated after serving years, sometimes decades, in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> But at the same time, there was a real excitement. From younger people who were. Sort of discovering Satanism because of the satanic. Panic. You know, people were jumping up and down and. Saying, “Oh, this is so evil, this is so. Bad.” And yet they would. Publish the satanic statements and the young kids would say, Well, that seems pretty sensible. To me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Because, here’s the thing a lot of people get wrong about The Church of Satan. Satanists don’t worship the devil. They don’t drink blood, sacrifice babies or animals. They don’t even believe in the literal devil. They’re atheists. Satanism is more of a philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>What the Satanic Bible tries to advocate is independent study, not worship. There is no dogma. You know, we honor animals. We honor children. It’s against self-deceit, kindness to those who deserve it rather than love wasted on ingrates. And the last one, of course, people get a chuckle out of because we say, we recognize that Satan is the best friend that the church has ever had…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]:\u003c/b> The devil is the guy that’s kept the church in business for many many years. Without him, and the concept of evil, where would the church be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font:\u003c/b> Using a satanic adversary to represent an ideology of personal freedom and indulging without guilt… Blanche says it’s really more of a style choice. That’s what drew her in…She wanted to embrace her dark and sensual side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> I was looking for a philosophy that really represented women and a freedom for women and their lust. And their desires and their habits and their beauty and their wisdom. And I felt that most organized religions just did not have a voice for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Blanche had been following the Church of Satan through her teenage years and early 20s in Southern California, even coming to San Francisco to meet Anton LaVey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> From our first meeting we felt a draw to each other. And from that time we spent a lot of time on the phone and corresponding back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Less than a year later in 1984, just after graduating college, she moves to San Francisco at the age of 22. Shortly thereafter they became romantically involved. Blanche moved into the Black House in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>We had a wonderful life together. It had a rhythm. Of course, he was very nocturnal. So a lot of times we would get up at four or five in the evening and meet people. Play music, converse, maybe watch a Movie And then we would go to sleep around dawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Rituals were no longer public, but occasional private events. LaVey wasn’t willing to present the Church of Satan as just a curiosity anymore. In 1993, Blanche gave birth to their son, his third child, Satan Xerxes. At that point, LaVey was 63 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MUSIC\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joe Pyne:\u003c/b> So is it necessary to drive a stake through your heart to kill you, or would an ordinary knock on the head do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> I will never die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> You won’t?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> No, of course not. I’ve made arrangements. (audience ooohs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Anton LaVey died from heart disease at St. Mary’s in San Francisco on October 29th, 1997. Although his official death certificate lists his expiration date as Halloween.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens when the core of the Church of Satan, the man who was its central flame, gets snuffed out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Blanche served as high priestess, the top leadership position, for a few years, before stepping down and handing the reins over to longtime member Peter Gilmore, who is still its high priest. The church left San Francisco and now has a new ‘Black House’ in New York state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey’s oldest daughter, Karla, was also high-priestess for a time but left the Church of Satan to start her own “First Satanic Church” in San Francisco. It’s a lot more exclusive and is known for throwing a great Black X-Mass concert in the city every year for the last couple decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeena, who was dedicated to Satan as a toddler, left Satanism entirely and became a Tantric Buddhist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His son, Satan Xerxes, isn’t involved at all and lives a private life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the infamous Black House…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> It was an amazing house and it should have been preserved. And we did try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>LaVey had been forced to sell the house to a friend in the early 90s though he was allowed to live there until his death. But the house was in disrepair, and the land was just too valuable. When efforts to find a preservation group willing to take it on failed, the property was sold and torn down in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What stands there now is a very normal-looking apartment building. No lingering signs that it was once a raucous den of sin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>That was Bay Curious producer Amanda Font.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it for today’s installment in our Boo Curious series. If you’ve been digging it, please share with a friend, or leave us a five-star rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode was produced by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, Brendan Willard, and me, Olivia Allen-Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From its humble beginnings in a black Victorian house in the Richmond District, to its rapid growth that helped kick off a wave of “satanic panic” across the country, the story of the Church of Satan is filled with lust, intrigue and a fair amount of theatrics.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700531220,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":164,"wordCount":6494},"headData":{"title":"How the Church of Satan Was Born in San Francisco | KQED","description":"From its humble beginnings in a black Victorian house in the Richmond District, to its rapid growth that helped kick off a wave of “satanic panic” across the country, the story of the Church of Satan is filled with lust, intrigue and a fair amount of theatrics.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How the Church of Satan Was Born in San Francisco","datePublished":"2023-10-20T11:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T01:47:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC1329439556.mp3?updated=1697679159","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11964949/how-the-church-of-satan-was-born-in-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has long been associated with countercultural movements — whether it was the Beats of the 1950s, the hippies of the 1960s or the Black Panthers of the 1970s. But often overlooked in that long tradition of local subcultures is the emergence of America’s first official satanic church, which was founded right here in San Francisco. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From its beginnings in a black Victorian house in the Richmond District, to its rapid growth that may have helped kick off a wave of “satanic panic” across the country, the story of the Church of Satan is filled with lust, intrigue and a fair amount of theatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>A born showman\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can’t describe the \u003ca href=\"https://www.churchofsatan.com/\">Church of Satan\u003c/a> without talking about the man who was its founder and central figure for decades, and who even posthumously is probably still the most iconic Satanist. Anton Szandor LaVey was born Howard Stanton Levey in Chicago in 1930. His family moved to the Bay Area when he was still a child, and he \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20120314024245/http://www.pacificsun.com/story.php?story_id=2313\">supposedly attended Tamalpais High School\u003c/a> in Mill Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a young age, LaVey had an interest in magic, the supernatural, and the idea of trickery. In a 1993 documentary about him called “\u003ca href=\"https://mubi.com/en/us/films/speak-of-the-devil\">Speak of the Devil\u003c/a>,” LaVey describes how fascinated he was as a little kid when a friend showed him a copy of the Johnson and Smith Company’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Smith_Company\">novelty catalog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It was] filled with all of these jokes, tricks, and books on forbidden subjects,” LaVey said. “It had all the most horrid examples of man’s inhumanity to man, all of course presented in the form of good fun and entertainment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey got his own copy of the catalog, and ordered several novelty trick toys from it, including a ‘recorder box’ that would stab a sharp needle into the finger of an unsuspecting victim when a button was pushed. LaVey said he felt the trick was too mean to play on his own friends, but he didn’t feel bad about handing the toy over to a bully. That distinction was perhaps a precursor to the later development of his satanic philosophy, which advocates for bestowing kindness on those who deserve it, but seeking revenge on those who wrong you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That curious nature led LaVey to pursue somewhat unusual jobs. He claimed to have joined the circus at 16, where he said he’d worked with the big cats as a “cage boy.” Likewise, he said he’d done stints as a psychic investigator, paranormal researcher, and hypnotist. He also claimed to have briefly been a crime scene photographer for the SFPD, although there are no official records to back that up.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘All religions are based on abstinence instead of indulgence. All religions therefore have to be based on fear. Well, we don’t feel that fear is necessary to base a religion on.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some have suggested that LaVey may have embellished some details of his early life, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.churchofsatan.com/history-anton-szandor-lavey/\">The Church of Satan, on its site, contends it has evidence\u003c/a> to support his claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey is also known to have worked as an organist and musician and performed at clubs around San Francisco beginning in the late 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the early 1950s, he was already cultivating the kind of dark aesthetic and occult interests that would lead him to found his church. In 1956, he purchased a Victorian house at 6114 California Street, a few blocks from the edge of the Presidio near the center of San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood, and painted it black. The house had a brick staircase leading up to the front door, with a parlor and a bar downstairs. The room that would become the primary ritual chamber contained a large mantle piece, one that would be featured prominently in future ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Church of Satan sort of grew out of what he called the Magic Circle,” said Blanche Barton, who is the current \u003ca href=\"https://www.churchofsatan.com/history-blanche-barton/\">Magistra Templi Rex\u003c/a> — a ranking member — of the Church of Satan, and one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Satanist-Authorized-Biography/dp/1627310029/churchofsatan\">LaVey’s biographers\u003c/a> and a former lover, with whom he had his only son: Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton says LaVey surrounded himself with friends who shared similar interests. “They were all intrigued by the weird and the unexplained. They started having soirées and that sort of led into ritualizing to see, practically, what happens or if anything happens,” she said. “[LaVey] started presenting seminars on the various topics that he was interested in, from vampires to cannibalism — everything weird and wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964952\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11964952 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white close up image of a man wearing a hooded cloak with devil horns. He is holding the point of a sword in front of his face. He casts a shadow onto the wall behind him, which features a large pentagram.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-2048x1370.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098328-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton LaVey poses in his Black House in 1967. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>‘First year of the reign of Satan’\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1966, the Church of Satan was officially launched and its congregation was comprised of a handful of people in LaVey’s inner circle. They gathered in his home — which was by then known as “The Black House” — on the night of April 30 to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, a German holiday with pagan origins that’s sometimes called the “night of the witches.” The holiday is, ironically, on the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, which commemorates the saint who is believed to offer protection from witchcraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey ritualistically shaved his head in the tradition of medieval executioners and dark magicians and declared 1966 to be the “first year of the reign of Satan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To attract followers to the church outside of his exclusive group of like-minded parishioners, LaVey quickly began spreading word of his satanic philosophy through public speaking engagements and by inviting reporters — and whoever else had interest — into his Black House to witness satanic rituals and masses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rituals themselves were a highly theatrical affair, akin to performance art, featuring satanic iconography and moody organ music. LaVey would wear a hooded cloak with devil horns and a pentagram medallion while invoking the many names of the devil. He’d often wield a sword or sometimes a large snake while a nude woman was draped over an altar in the house’s ritual chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanche Barton says the aesthetics of Satanism were rooted in LaVey’s artistic nature: He was a painter, sculptor and musician, who just happened to have a penchant for dark things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examples of the early rituals he led can be seen in the 1970 documentary, “\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/satanis-the-devils-mass-1970\">Satanis: The Devil’s Mass,\u003c/a>” which chronicles the early years of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most amusing parts of the film, almost endearing, is when they go out and talk to the neighbors,” Barton said. “And it’s pretty funny. You know, they say that they see the nude people dancing around in the front. And they saw the lion … eating something! Really quite devilish and intriguing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964956\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-800x759.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of a man with dark curly hair and a goatee seated cross legged on the floor of a room. In front of him is a lion cub, which looks at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-800x759.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-1020x967.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621-1536x1457.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1310361512-scaled-e1697739531621.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton LaVey, founder and self-proclaimed high priest of the Church of Satan, is photographed at home in San Francisco with his pet lion on June 26, 1964. \u003ccite>(Art Frisch/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s right — LaVey actually owned a 500-pound pet lion named Togare, who he’d raised from a cub, and who lived with him in the Black House and slept in his bedroom at night. In the late 1960s, when his neighbors successfully petitioned to have the lion removed, Lavey ended up giving his oversized pet to actress Tippi Hedren, who starred in “The Birds,” and had founded (and apparently still lives on) \u003ca href=\"https://www.shambala.org/about.htm\">a big cat sanctuary\u003c/a> in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey soon became a well-known personality throughout California and increasingly nationwide, largely supporting himself by collecting church initiation fees and doing paid public speaking engagements. He was frequently interviewed in print publications and on TV, including on \u003cem>The Tonight Show\u003c/em>. Even people who seemed to despise his ideology wanted to talk to him — as is evident in this interview with antagonistic talk show host Joe Pyne:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Kqb54soKU8M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Kqb54soKU8M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wide variety of people were drawn to LaVey’s dark charm and hedonistic philosophy that promoted a guilt-free, indulgent lifestyle. The church is rumored to have drawn in several notable celebrities in its early years, including Sammy Davis Jr. and Liberace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4718112/Hollywood-Satanist-Bizarre-Jayne-Mansfield-Anton-LaVey.html\">developed a friendship\u003c/a> with blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, an actress, nightclub entertainer and Playboy playmate, and the mother of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay. There was even speculation that Mansfield’s death in 1967, a year after meeting LaVey, was the result of a curse he is believed to have placed on the driver of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, LaVey openly courted controversy. In 1967, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SFGate/videos/anton-lavey-oversees-a-satanic-wedding-ceremony-in-san-francisco/10156878589425594/\">publicized and officiated a satanic wedding\u003c/a> between a New York socialite and a journalist. He also performed satanic funerals for servicemen in the Bay Area, at the request of their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time he started the church, LaVey had divorced his first wife and became involved with another woman, with whom he had a daughter, his second child. In 1967, he baptized the 3-year-old girl into the church, dedicating her to Satan as she sat in a hooded robe next to the nude altar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964962\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-800x923.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hooded devil costume kneels in front of a large brick fireplace. A blonde woman kneels to his right. They are both reaching up towards a small girl wearing a hooded robe, who sits on the edge of the mantle, over which is draped a nude woman. A large pentagram featuring the head of Baphomet is painted on the wall behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-800x923.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-1020x1176.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-160x185.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-1332x1536.jpg 1332w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672-1776x2048.jpg 1776w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515036094-scaled-e1697741210672.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton Szandor LaVey, the leader of the First Church of Satan, taps his gum-chewing 3-year-old daughter, Zeena Galatea LaVey, on the head with a sword during “baptism ceremonies” in San Francisco on May 23, 1967. A naked woman reclines on the altar during the anti-religious ceremony. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Satanic Bible\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1969, LaVey published \u003ca href=\"https://www.harvard.com/book/the_satanic_bible/\">The Satanic Bible\u003c/a>, outlining his philosophy and detailing the official tenets of his church. At the core are \u003ca href=\"https://www.churchofsatan.com/nine-satanic-statements/\">the 9 Satanic Statements\u003c/a>, the last of which is: “Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here LaVey refers to the Christian Church, which he said he found hypocritical for its denial of human nature. “No religion had ever been based on man’s carnal needs or his fleshly pursuits,” he said, in a 1970 interview. “All religions are based on abstinence instead of indulgence. All religions therefore have to be based on fear. Well, we don’t feel that fear is necessary to base a religion on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word Satan means adversary, he explained. “I’m supplying a much-needed opposition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the nine statements begin with “Satan represents…” Many people incorrectly assume that Satanists worship the devil. In fact, the Church of Satan’s official position is that the devil doesn’t exist at all. It’s an atheistic religion — really more like a philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Satanic Bible tries to advocate is independent study, not worship,” Blanche Barton, his biographer and former lover, said. “There is no dogma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey’s philosophy grew in popularity throughout the 1970s. But even as the church continued to openly insist that it didn’t worship or believe in the devil, a centuries-old fear inevitably came bubbling to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The satanic panic\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beginning in the 1980s, and lasting through the 1990s, LaVey’s church spurred a national wave of fear and conspiracy theories around “satanic cults,” resulting in over 12,000 unsubstantiated claims of satanic ritual abuse and crimes, many centered around children, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/satanic-panic.html\">according to the New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of high-profile court cases drew national headlines during this period of “satanic panic.” One notorious case in the early 1980s — the \u003ca href=\"https://famous-trials.com/mcmartin/902-home\">McMartin Preschool trial\u003c/a> in Manhattan Beach in Southern California — originated from a mother’s claim that her son had been sexually abused by his preschool, which she accused of being run by Satanists.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘What the Satanic Bible tries to advocate is independent study, not worship. There is no dogma.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Blanche Barton, LaVey's biographer (and former lover)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That incited a set of increasingly bizarre claims of satanic child abuse and led to hundreds of children being interrogated by state investigators over allegations that they had been forced to do things like drink the blood of sacrificed animals or dig up graves. The mother who made the initial claim was later found to be prone to schizophrenic delusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapes of the children’s interviews were reviewed by a clinical psychologist who said they were coercive and extremely suggestive, leading children to give the answers the interviewers wanted to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate trials over the course of seven years resulted in no convictions. And at a cost of $15 million, it became the most expensive criminal trial in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other similar cases resulted in actual convictions, a large number of them in the state of Texas. Most, however, were ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/24/accused-of-satanism-they-spent-21-years-in-prison-they-were-just-declared-innocent-and-were-paid-millions/\">overturned\u003c/a> due to lack of evidence, sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/10/26/how-satanic-panic-led-a-10-year-old-son-to-falsely-accuse-his-father/\">decades later\u003c/a> after the convicted parties had served \u003ca href=\"https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-04-11/after-30-years-a-father-is-exonerated-in-satanic-panic-case\">years in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accusations weren’t lobbed directly at the Church of Satan, but the group was sometimes cited by police as having an influence on the spread of the ideology — as is the case in this \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/LawEnforcementGuideToSatanicCults1994VHSOccultHilarity\">police training video\u003c/a>. Filmed in San Francisco in the early 1990s, the video includes stereotypical claims about crimes Satanists might commit, from cannibalism and necrophilia to corpse theft and black market baby sales — despite any evidence of the church ever doing or condoning such things.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Fate of the Black House\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Blanche Barton moved to San Francisco in 1984 at the age of 22 and became romantically involved with LaVey that same year. Five years later, Barton moved into the Black House with LaVey, who sold it to pay off debts, but continued renting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton says, like so many other San Francisco Victorians, the house itself had a long and interesting history dating back to its construction in 1887.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had trapdoors and it had been used as a [brothel] and a speakeasy,” she said, “It had a bar downstairs. It had secret passageways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A mean in a hooded devil costume and cloak emerges from a secret passage way in the fireplace of a a room in his house. There are bookshelves above hi, and a human skeleton mounted in a large display case on the wall to the right.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-515098326-scaled-e1697741191291.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, rises out from a hidden corridor behind a false fireplace in his study in 1967. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LaVey died from heart disease on Oct. 29, 1997, at the age of 67, although according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/11/09/anton-s-lavey-dies-at-67/c546b323-acb9-463e-ad96-7da298f9e4d8/\">obituary in \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, his death certificate listed him as dying several days later, on Halloween. He left behind three children, all from different women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leadership of the church was eventually turned over to longtime church member Peter Gilmore, who still serves as its high priest. The church’s headquarters have since been moved to New York state, where Gilmore and his partner Peggy Nadramia built a new “Black House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton said she and a group of followers attempted to raise money to buy LaVey’s house back so that it could be preserved as a museum, but those efforts ultimately failed, and the house was eventually sold and torn down in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so much a part of his soul,” said Barton, “And as he said, ‘The roots went all the way to hell.’ So he was able to be there until the last, which was great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What now stands in its place is a rather normal-looking beige apartment building, devoid of any signs that it was once the site of a satanic sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>If you visited San Francisco’s Richmond District before 2001, and made your way to 6114 California Street, you would have found yourself facing a tall Victorian house that was entirely \u003ci>black.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attention grabbing paint scheme for sure. But it’s what happened inside The Black House that truly intrigued curious San Francsicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first headquarters of the Church of Satan … and the personal home of its founder Anton LaVey. His theatrical nature, and controversial beliefs, turned him into a kind of celebrity… here he is in an interview in 1970…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joe Pyne:\u003c/b> Who ordained you a atanic priest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey:\u003c/b> I would say, probably, I received the call. Just as any fundamentalist—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> Well most of us do, but we fight it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> Why fight it? This is, of course, the whole principle of my religion. All—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> What do you mean you received the call? You mean one day the devil said “Go out, Anton Szandor LaVey, and give people hell!” [audience laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> That’s about it. That’s about it. Because people like to have a hell of a time, don’t they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Spooky music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> How did the Church of Satan get its start in San Francisco? And what was it like to live in the Black House with the so-called “Black Pope” himself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to the third installment of Boo Curious! This October we’re bringing you stories about the creepy, the eerie, the misunderstood places around the Bay Area. Today, we explore what was going on inside that Black House. And who, really, was Anton LaVey?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> Well listen, I’d tell you where to go, but you’d enjoy it… [audience laughs] We’ll be back with another guest…(fade under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Now stay close, you don’t want to get lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[spooky laugh]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b> We sent producer Amanda Font to make a deal with the devil, and learn more about The Black House, and the Church of Satan’s larger-than-life founder…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>The Bay Area is often associated with countercultural movements. You had the beat poets of the 1950s getting arrested for protesting censorship, the free-loving hippies of the 1960s dropping acid in the park, and the Black Panthers in the 1970s fighting back against institutional racism. What you don’t often hear about alongside those other cultural phenomena is that the late 1960s in San Francisco also gave rise to the notorious, indulgent, and wickedly provocative Church of Satan. [\u003ci>demonic vocal effect on “Church of Satan”]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>In this case, when we use the word “church,” it might not be exactly what you’re picturing. They do describe themselves as a religious organization, but there aren’t a lot of physical church buildings associated with Satanism. It’s more like an organization of like-minded people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the black heart of the church, and perhaps still the most recognizable Satanist, was its founder Anton Szandor LaVey. He was born Howard Stanton Levey in Chicago in 1930, and later his family moved to the Bay Area. From a young age, he had a fascination with the supernatural, magic and the idea of trickery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]: \u003c/b>When I was about 5 years old, I had a friend that had a catalog from the Johnson and Smith company, filled with all of these jokes, tricks, and books on forbidden subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>This is a clip of LaVey from a 1993 documentary about him called “Speak of the Devil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]:\u003c/b> It had all the most horrid examples of man’s inhumanity to man, all of course presented in the form of good fun and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Like a toy “recorder box,” that, when you pushed a button, would stab a sharp needle into the finger of an unsuspecting victim. LaVey recalls he didn’t want to play such a mean trick on his friends… but he didn’t mind if it was a kid who was a bully. A similar thought came into play later, when he developed his satanic philosophy. It’s big on the idea of being kind to those who deserve it, but seeking revenge on those who wrong you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he got older, LaVey’s curious nature led him to pursue somewhat unusual jobs. In his early life, he claimed to have worked in a circus with big cats, as a psychic investigator, an organist, a hypnotist, and to have been a police photographer for the SFPD (although there are no official records to back that last one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1956, a decade before he officially created the Church of Satan, he was already cultivating the kind of dark aesthetic that people would come to know him for. LaVey bought the Victorian house at 6114 California Street and painted it black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> And as he said, the roots went all The way to hell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b> This is Blanche Barton…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> I am the current Magistra Templi Rex of the Church of Satan. I’ve been a member of the organization. Wow, almost 50 years now. And I was a high priestess for a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>She also was Anton LaVey’s romantic partner for 13 years, and they had a child together. Blanche, or Magistra Barton has written two books about the Church of Satan, including a biography of Anton LaVey called “The Secret Life of a Satanist,” and “The Church of Satan: A History of the World’s Most Notorious Religion.” Blanche says even before the house became a satanic sanctuary, like so many old San Francisco Victorians, the house itself had an interesting history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> It was Built in 1887, as far as the stories go, by a Scottish sea captain. And there were timbers in the lower levels that had come to San Francisco During the gold rush, and it had trapdoors and it had been used as a whorehouse and a speakeasy. It had a bar downstairs. It had secret passageways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>When he purchased the house in ‘56, LaVey lived there with his first wife and their young daughter, Karla. And as his interests in the supernatural deepened, he surrounded himself with a group of friends who were curious about the same things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>The Church of Satan, sort of grew out of what he called the Magic Circle. They were all intrigued by the weird and the unexplained. They started sort of having soirees and that sort of led into ritualizing, to see, practically, what happens or if anything happens. He started presenting seminars on the various topics that he was interested in from, vampires to cannibalism. Everything weird and wonderful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[spooky music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font:\u003c/b> And in 1966, the people in that magic circle became the first members of the Church of Satan… picture it… a dark night, April 30th, Walpurgisnacht — a German holiday with Pagan origins, sometimes called “The night of the witches.” On that night Anton LaVey ritualistically shaved his head in the tradition of medieval executioners and dark magicians, adopting the look he’d have for the rest of his life, and declared 1966 to be the first year of the reign of Satan, thus founding America’s first official Satanic church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from there, it became a kind of hit…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[swinging music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey claimed that the church had hundreds of members in San Francisco and thousands throughout the world. He was a natural showman, with his shiny polished bald head, black goatee, and intense eyes. He wore all black, a long cloak, large rings, a pentagram medallion, and would make appearances wearing a hooded devil costume with little horns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a 500-pound pet lion named Togare who he’d raised from a cub, that slept in his bedroom at night. He invited reporters and the public inside the Black House to attend Satanic Mass…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[Archival recording of Satanic Mass]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…Where he’d invoke the devil while wielding a large sword or sometimes a boa constrictor while a nude woman was draped across the altar in the ritual chamber. He even married people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip of LaVey marrying couple:\u003c/b> “Former New York socialite Judith Chase and John Raymond were joined in unholy wedlock before a live altar, a nude redhead. Self-ordained sorcerer/minister Anton Levey presided at the San Francisco ceremony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>The media absolutely ate it up. They started calling him the Black Pope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip of LaVey marrying couple:\u003c/b> “As the worst man looks on, the blessings of Lucifer and Beelzebub are invoked. The elaborate rite smacked of publicity, because next day the bride and groom secured a conventional wedding license”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>LaVey was charismatic and people seemed to gravitate to him. He became a kind of overnight celebrity. He was interviewed on national television, in magazines, people across the country were seeing his face. Even people who seemed to \u003ci>hate\u003c/i> him wanted to interview him… Like talk show host Joe Pyne…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> Are you married?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> Oh yes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> You have any little devils?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> Oh yes. I have two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb> Pyne: \u003c/b>Are you gonna raise them as satanic kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> Certainly, but not to go around chopping people up as sacrificing human beings just to—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne: \u003c/b> That would be the greatest reward of all. If your kids some night would creep in and set fire to you and your lion, then dance around with pitchforks saying “Hey look at daddy, look at daddy!” (audience laughs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>But it seemed like all kinds of people were at least curious about the church. At one time, Sammy Davis Jr. and Liberace were linked to the Church of Satan. In 1966 the actress Jayne Mansfield met LaVey at a film festival in San Francisco and they began an unlikely friendship. There are numerous photos of them together, even performing a ritual at Mansfield’s home, though Mansfield said she was a Catholic and simply found LaVey intriguing. Some people blame her untimely death in a car crash a year later on an alleged curse LaVey put on the driver of the car… but who’s to say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Controversies made the news. Famously, in 1967 he baptized his then 3-year-old daughter Zeena into the church, dedicating her to Satan while her mother, LaVey’s 2nd partner Diane Hegarty, looked on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival clip of LaVey baptizing Zeena: \u003c/b>In the name of our great god, Satan Lucifer, I command thee to come forth an bestow these blessings upon us…(fades down and LaVey continues)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>So how much of LaVey’s highly theatrical image was serious? Well, while much of the ritualizing was akin to performance art, he was sincere in his philosophy. LaVey published “The Satanic Bible,” which by now has sold over a million copies, outlining his beliefs. The number one sin in Satanism is stupidity or willful ignorance. Herd conformity is also up there. He founded the Church of Satan as an alternative to what he saw as the repression of many other mainstream religions. Denying human nature, he said, was the real sin. Indulgence is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]:\u003c/b> No religion had ever been based on man’s carnal needs or his fleshly pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>This is a clip of LaVey from a documentary filmed in those first few years of the church called “Satanis: The Devil’s Mass”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]:\u003c/b> All religions are based on abstinence instead of indulgence. All religions therefore have to be based on fear. Well, we don’t feel that fear is necessary to base a religion on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Not everyone was a fan, of course. He was telling people to embrace their animal nature… give in to their dark and lustful desires. Christian groups were appalled, obviously, and what about the neighbors? Here’s Blanche Barton again…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> One of the most amusing parts of the film, almost endearing, is when they go out and talk to the neighbors. And it’s pretty funny. You know, they say that they see the nude people dancing around in the front. And they saw the lion — eating something! Really quite, quite devilish and intriguing. (laughs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>[Clip from ‘Satanis: The Devil’s Mass]\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Neighbor 1:\u003c/b> He’s been in the neighborhood about 14 years and I always knew him as Tony. Just a nice ordinary — well — a little more dramatic than most men in the neighborhood, perhaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Neighbor 2:\u003c/b> Actually I don’t know what kind of man he is. As soon as you meet him, you think he’s a very very nice man, you know. I just had a feeling I can trust him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Neighbor 3:\u003c/b> (grumbling) A very undesirable type of a neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Neighbors successfully petitioned to have LaVey’s pet lion relocated in the late 60s. He first landed in a zoo, then ended up at a big cat sanctuary in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the goings on at the church, the nude rituals, wild events, blaspheming…well, freedom of religion! They weren’t doing anything illegal. Still, by the 70s, LaVey had stopped inviting the press in for all the rituals, instead focusing more on cultivating new members. He was living in a world of his own aesthetic making, which is a primary tenet of his satanic philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> Anton Levey was first and foremost an artist. He felt that aesthetics, whatever you are most drawn to, is what you should use. If you’re really excited about Frankenstein or if you are very drawn to technology. Because what you do in the ritual chamber is you’re evoking your emotions. Nothing comes from outside. It’s not coming from Satan or demons or anything. But we know the power that Humans have for creating a world and a life for yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>LaVey was making a living through the church, taking speaking engagements and charging initiation fees for new members. He also sometimes worked as an organist at local clubs. He spent more of his time making art, and music, another passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>He got the most joy out of playing. Keyboards because he could control the entire orchestra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Clip of Anton LaVey playing keyboards]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>He even pressed a record. Much of it includes recordings of early satanic masses, but also just, you know, some songs…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Anton LaVey singing a song called ‘Honolulu Baby’]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>His specific aesthetics were very much in the forties. A lot of the precepts of Satanism that he developed are very much, sort of, grounded in his creative self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Anton LaVey singing, music fades out]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> And then in the Eighties, there was the Satanic Panic going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font:\u003c/b> In the 1980s and through the 90s there was a national wave of fear that “Satanic Cults” were taking over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from training video: \u003c/b>Anton LaVey, perhaps the best-known Satanist in America compiled his years of cult knowledge into two books: the Satanic Bible, and the Satanic Rituals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>This is from an hourlong police training video from 1993, filmed in San Francisco, that was created to teach law enforcement how to spot satanic symbols and investigate “satanic crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from training video:\u003c/b> Now remember, not all satanic people commit crimes. Some of their activities may be perfectly legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>It has all the highly stereotypical suggestions about what kinds of \u003ci>illegal\u003c/i> activities Satanists might engage in….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from training video: \u003c/b>Murder, which might include human sacrifice, or mass murders or cannibalism…(fade under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Some of them, frankly, are pretty macabre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from training video:\u003c/b> Corpse theft, cemetery vandalism, black market sales of bones and skulls, black market baby selling…(fade under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Dramatic music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>To be clear, these things weren’t happening. It’s kind of funny now, especially set to\u003ci> that \u003c/i>music, but at that time the fear that these things \u003ci>were actually\u003c/i> happening was intense. Through the 80s and 90s upwards of 10-thousand unsubstantiated claims of ritualistic abuse by supposed satanic cults were made, though not directly against the Church of Satan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was happening in California, and all over the United States. It was like the witch trials all over again. There were numerous high-profile cases where people were convicted of satanic crimes, only to be exonerated after serving years, sometimes decades, in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> But at the same time, there was a real excitement. From younger people who were. Sort of discovering Satanism because of the satanic. Panic. You know, people were jumping up and down and. Saying, “Oh, this is so evil, this is so. Bad.” And yet they would. Publish the satanic statements and the young kids would say, Well, that seems pretty sensible. To me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Because, here’s the thing a lot of people get wrong about The Church of Satan. Satanists don’t worship the devil. They don’t drink blood, sacrifice babies or animals. They don’t even believe in the literal devil. They’re atheists. Satanism is more of a philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>What the Satanic Bible tries to advocate is independent study, not worship. There is no dogma. You know, we honor animals. We honor children. It’s against self-deceit, kindness to those who deserve it rather than love wasted on ingrates. And the last one, of course, people get a chuckle out of because we say, we recognize that Satan is the best friend that the church has ever had…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anton LaVey [archival]:\u003c/b> The devil is the guy that’s kept the church in business for many many years. Without him, and the concept of evil, where would the church be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font:\u003c/b> Using a satanic adversary to represent an ideology of personal freedom and indulging without guilt… Blanche says it’s really more of a style choice. That’s what drew her in…She wanted to embrace her dark and sensual side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> I was looking for a philosophy that really represented women and a freedom for women and their lust. And their desires and their habits and their beauty and their wisdom. And I felt that most organized religions just did not have a voice for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Blanche had been following the Church of Satan through her teenage years and early 20s in Southern California, even coming to San Francisco to meet Anton LaVey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> From our first meeting we felt a draw to each other. And from that time we spent a lot of time on the phone and corresponding back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Less than a year later in 1984, just after graduating college, she moves to San Francisco at the age of 22. Shortly thereafter they became romantically involved. Blanche moved into the Black House in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton: \u003c/b>We had a wonderful life together. It had a rhythm. Of course, he was very nocturnal. So a lot of times we would get up at four or five in the evening and meet people. Play music, converse, maybe watch a Movie And then we would go to sleep around dawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Rituals were no longer public, but occasional private events. LaVey wasn’t willing to present the Church of Satan as just a curiosity anymore. In 1993, Blanche gave birth to their son, his third child, Satan Xerxes. At that point, LaVey was 63 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MUSIC\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joe Pyne:\u003c/b> So is it necessary to drive a stake through your heart to kill you, or would an ordinary knock on the head do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> I will never die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pyne:\u003c/b> You won’t?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>LaVey:\u003c/b> No, of course not. I’ve made arrangements. (audience ooohs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>Anton LaVey died from heart disease at St. Mary’s in San Francisco on October 29th, 1997. Although his official death certificate lists his expiration date as Halloween.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens when the core of the Church of Satan, the man who was its central flame, gets snuffed out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Blanche served as high priestess, the top leadership position, for a few years, before stepping down and handing the reins over to longtime member Peter Gilmore, who is still its high priest. The church left San Francisco and now has a new ‘Black House’ in New York state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaVey’s oldest daughter, Karla, was also high-priestess for a time but left the Church of Satan to start her own “First Satanic Church” in San Francisco. It’s a lot more exclusive and is known for throwing a great Black X-Mass concert in the city every year for the last couple decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeena, who was dedicated to Satan as a toddler, left Satanism entirely and became a Tantric Buddhist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His son, Satan Xerxes, isn’t involved at all and lives a private life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the infamous Black House…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Blanche Barton:\u003c/b> It was an amazing house and it should have been preserved. And we did try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amanda Font: \u003c/b>LaVey had been forced to sell the house to a friend in the early 90s though he was allowed to live there until his death. But the house was in disrepair, and the land was just too valuable. When efforts to find a preservation group willing to take it on failed, the property was sold and torn down in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What stands there now is a very normal-looking apartment building. No lingering signs that it was once a raucous den of sin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>That was Bay Curious producer Amanda Font.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it for today’s installment in our Boo Curious series. If you’ve been digging it, please share with a friend, or leave us a five-star rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode was produced by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, Brendan Willard, and me, Olivia Allen-Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964949/how-the-church-of-satan-was-born-in-san-francisco","authors":["8637"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_33368","news_33367","news_856","news_38","news_32749"],"featImg":"news_11964950","label":"news_33523"},"news_11943566":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11943566","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11943566","score":null,"sort":[1679666484000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-devastating-fire-landmark-black-church-in-oakland-perseveres","title":"After Devastating Fire, Landmark Black Church in Oakland Perseveres","publishDate":1679666484,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the night of Sunday, Feb. 19, Pastor Rodney D. Smith of Oakland’s First African Methodist Episcopal Church, known as FAME, was at home when he received an unusual call from one of the church officers — that the door alarms of the church were going off and needed to be checked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When one alarm goes off, the church officers don't usually call me,” said Smith. \"But in this particular case ... all of the doors in the church were reporting that something was wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned, Smith got in his car and headed over. As he drove on the I-580, he could see smoke billowing in the distance. As he got closer to the church, he got an awkward feeling that the smoke was related. His fears were soon confirmed as he pulled into the parking lot and saw dozens of firefighters rushing to put out a fire that was engulfing the upper section of FAME while others surrounded the area with yellow tape to keep people away from the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just in disbelief,\" recalled Smith. \"It's almost like a dream. Like you couldn't believe what you're seeing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-alarm fire raged until early the next morning, gutting the building. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to Oakland Fire Department spokesperson Michael Hunt and officials from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, who became FAME’s lead pastor in 2020, said he's still waiting for insurance companies to make their final report and learn the full scope of the damage to the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944318 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with salt-and-pepper hair and a full beard wearing a light grey cardigan stands outside a building with a fence behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Smith stands outside the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakland on March 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/fame-oakland-church-fire\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> was launched with a goal of $1 million, and Smith says there may be additional fundraising efforts once the exact costs of rebuilding can be determined. The church previously suffered damages during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just from what I see, I would probably think we're going to be out at least a minimum of two years,\" said Smith. \"And then when you start rebuilding or refurbishing, that could be a whole nother year for that process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A living part of Oakland history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FAME’s history is woven into the fabric of Oakland’s culture from the institution’s earliest days. Located at Telegraph Avenue at 37th Street in North Oakland, FAME is the oldest Black church in the East Bay and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55561507/83rd-anniversary-of-first-ame/\">founded in 1858\u003c/a> as Shiloh African Methodist Episcopal Church by a small group of Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was originally located on Fifth Street and structured as a mission in the home of one of the members. According to Barbara Freeman, a lifelong member of FAME and the church’s historian, the founding members purchased a schoolhouse on Fourth and Clay streets five years later from Horace Walpole Carpentier, Oakland's first mayor. According to records from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8j38wxd/entire_text/\">African American Museum and Library at Oakland\u003c/a>, during this time the schoolhouse — which became the church’s first building — served as a meeting place for the Black community where social and political organizations held festivals and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church also began running the first school for children of color in Oakland at a time when only white children could attend public schools in California. Informal schoolhouses had formed earlier as a result of segregation — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881675/the-19th-century-teacher-who-fought-to-give-black-children-an-education\">Elizabeth Flood\u003c/a>, one of the church's founding members, started the first version of the school in her home on East 15th Street in 1857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13881675 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/elizabeth_thorn_scott_flood_final-1020x574.jpg']An article from \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=PA18720511.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------\">\u003cem>Pacific Appeal\u003c/em> newspaper\u003c/a> documented in 1871 that Isaac Flood, Elizabeth’s husband, petitioned the Oakland School Board to accept Black children, following the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments. Oakland public schools were integrated in 1872, and eight years later, in 1880, \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1880/1880Code.PDF#page=52\">the integration of schools in California was made into law (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a series of church members and local pastors held services, Jeremiah Sanderson was appointed FAME's first minister in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, the church moved to a larger location on 15th Street between Market and West streets and became known as Fifteenth Street Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1330px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM.png\" alt=\"An archival photo of a large group of African American men, women, and children standing in front of a building.\" width=\"1330\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM.png 1330w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM-800x526.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM-1020x670.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM-160x105.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1330px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An archival photo from 1953 shows a congregation posed in front of one of the church's former locations, on 15th Street between Market and West streets. It was known as Fifteenth Street Church at the time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of African American Museum & Library at Oakland Photograph Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeman, the church historian, says FAME's legacy is distinguished and impossible to leave out when discussing the culture of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not surprising and fills me with pride that FAME established the first school in Oakland to teach Black children,” said Freeman. “The Fifteenth Street Church made a significant impact in the community. FAME recognizes in order to have a thriving community, the church must be the anchor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't until 1954, under the leadership of Rev. H. Solomon Hill, that the church moved to its present location and became First African Methodist Episcopal Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-800x732.jpg\" alt=\"An archival photo of a scrapbook cover with blue lettering and image of a building with a cross diagonally in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-800x732.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-1020x933.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-160x146.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-1536x1405.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-2048x1873.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-1920x1756.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An archival photo of a Relocation Services scrapbook cover at FAME church, circa 1958. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of African American Museum & Library at Oakland Photograph Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“FAME, for more than 160 years, has been an integral part of Oakland and has been involved in helping it develop into the kind of community that is recognized across the country,\" said Rev. Dr. Harold R. Mayberry, presiding elder and former pastor of FAME. \"So over the past several years, we've had a big shoe giveaway at the [Oakland] Coliseum. And for FAME to have given away over 10,000 new shoes by partnering with the community to share in that kind of effort, it speaks to FAME's ability to generate the kind of relationships necessary to make things happen in this community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Irma Lastra, a lifelong member of FAME and frequent volunteer, the shoe program was started years ago as an annual giveaway of 500 pairs of shoes and grew from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an awesome experience and thousands of people would attend,” Lastra recalled. “We also have Tent City, which is the outreach where we would go to the different tent cities and bless them with different things. We would pray with them, sing happy birthday and were very personable, hands on. We assist people and pay their bills, their rent, whatever the need is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A distinguished middle-aged Black man wearing a blue collared shirt and blue jacket sits in a well-lit living room, his eyes looking into the distance\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Harold Mayberry, presiding elder and former pastor of FAME, at his home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FAME’s numerous community service and outreach programs include an extensive feeding ministry, operating three times a week and providing hot meals to unhoused members of the community. The food programs were in service during the peak of the pandemic as well, and Smith is in discussions with other congregations to use their kitchen facilities to continue operations. Under Mayberry’s leadership in 1996, the church began a prison ministry, computer training program, travel ministry, free income tax return assistance, and a weekly radio broadcast program on KDIA 1640 AM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Pastor Rodney D. Smith, First African Methodist Episcopal Church\"]'I call FAME America's church because I personally believe that everybody who loves this town, everybody who loves the Bay Area, is going to play a part in rebuilding because of its history.'[/pullquote]According to Freeman, the church has a long history of working with local government to help alleviate social ills plaguing the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1987, Dr. Frederick O. Murph, former pastor of the FAME, was named chairperson of Mayor Lionel J. Wilson’s hunger task force,” said Freeman. “This task force was formed in response to a study that identified hunger as a growing problem. The study found that approximately 100,000 people in Oakland were at risk for hunger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the Season of Caring program, last December, the church chartered a bus to pick up unhoused community members in the nearby area, giving them dress clothes and taking them to Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar for a private dining experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a pink jumpsuit stands with both hands raised among several people who are seated in a building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Chambers, 56, bows her head during FAME's Sunday service, temporarily held at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland, on March 12. Chambers said she had been part of the church for over 20 years. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the devastating fire, there has been an outpouring of support from local leadership, community members and religious institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was told as a child you know who your real friends are when a crisis strikes, and FAME has discovered that there are real friends in the community who have stepped up to the plate to say, we are family,\" said Mayberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congregation held service a week later at Temple Beth Abraham synagogue, which will serve as a temporary home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of African American men and women stand with their hands raised and clapping as a man holds a microphone to the left.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Amittia Smith closes her eyes as her husband, Pastor Rodney Smith, speaks during the First African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation's Sunday service at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland on March 12. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee was in attendance for the service, and offered to look into resources to help the church. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s office reached out to Smith to offer support as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call FAME America's church because I personally believe that everybody who loves this town, everybody who loves the Bay Area, is going to play a part in rebuilding because of its history,” said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After a three-alarm fire gutted the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Pastor Rodney D. Smith and his congregation are working to continue services and preserve the church's rich history and cultural impact in the city.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1679699792,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1633},"headData":{"title":"After Devastating Fire, Landmark Black Church in Oakland Perseveres | KQED","description":"After a three-alarm fire gutted the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Pastor Rodney D. 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Smith of Oakland’s First African Methodist Episcopal Church, known as FAME, was at home when he received an unusual call from one of the church officers — that the door alarms of the church were going off and needed to be checked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When one alarm goes off, the church officers don't usually call me,” said Smith. \"But in this particular case ... all of the doors in the church were reporting that something was wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned, Smith got in his car and headed over. As he drove on the I-580, he could see smoke billowing in the distance. As he got closer to the church, he got an awkward feeling that the smoke was related. His fears were soon confirmed as he pulled into the parking lot and saw dozens of firefighters rushing to put out a fire that was engulfing the upper section of FAME while others surrounded the area with yellow tape to keep people away from the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just in disbelief,\" recalled Smith. \"It's almost like a dream. Like you couldn't believe what you're seeing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-alarm fire raged until early the next morning, gutting the building. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to Oakland Fire Department spokesperson Michael Hunt and officials from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, who became FAME’s lead pastor in 2020, said he's still waiting for insurance companies to make their final report and learn the full scope of the damage to the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944318 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with salt-and-pepper hair and a full beard wearing a light grey cardigan stands outside a building with a fence behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63586_001_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Smith stands outside the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakland on March 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/fame-oakland-church-fire\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> was launched with a goal of $1 million, and Smith says there may be additional fundraising efforts once the exact costs of rebuilding can be determined. The church previously suffered damages during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just from what I see, I would probably think we're going to be out at least a minimum of two years,\" said Smith. \"And then when you start rebuilding or refurbishing, that could be a whole nother year for that process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A living part of Oakland history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FAME’s history is woven into the fabric of Oakland’s culture from the institution’s earliest days. Located at Telegraph Avenue at 37th Street in North Oakland, FAME is the oldest Black church in the East Bay and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55561507/83rd-anniversary-of-first-ame/\">founded in 1858\u003c/a> as Shiloh African Methodist Episcopal Church by a small group of Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was originally located on Fifth Street and structured as a mission in the home of one of the members. According to Barbara Freeman, a lifelong member of FAME and the church’s historian, the founding members purchased a schoolhouse on Fourth and Clay streets five years later from Horace Walpole Carpentier, Oakland's first mayor. According to records from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8j38wxd/entire_text/\">African American Museum and Library at Oakland\u003c/a>, during this time the schoolhouse — which became the church’s first building — served as a meeting place for the Black community where social and political organizations held festivals and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church also began running the first school for children of color in Oakland at a time when only white children could attend public schools in California. Informal schoolhouses had formed earlier as a result of segregation — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881675/the-19th-century-teacher-who-fought-to-give-black-children-an-education\">Elizabeth Flood\u003c/a>, one of the church's founding members, started the first version of the school in her home on East 15th Street in 1857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13881675","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/elizabeth_thorn_scott_flood_final-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An article from \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=PA18720511.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------\">\u003cem>Pacific Appeal\u003c/em> newspaper\u003c/a> documented in 1871 that Isaac Flood, Elizabeth’s husband, petitioned the Oakland School Board to accept Black children, following the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments. Oakland public schools were integrated in 1872, and eight years later, in 1880, \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1880/1880Code.PDF#page=52\">the integration of schools in California was made into law (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a series of church members and local pastors held services, Jeremiah Sanderson was appointed FAME's first minister in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, the church moved to a larger location on 15th Street between Market and West streets and became known as Fifteenth Street Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1330px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM.png\" alt=\"An archival photo of a large group of African American men, women, and children standing in front of a building.\" width=\"1330\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM.png 1330w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM-800x526.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM-1020x670.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-5.14.53-PM-160x105.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1330px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An archival photo from 1953 shows a congregation posed in front of one of the church's former locations, on 15th Street between Market and West streets. It was known as Fifteenth Street Church at the time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of African American Museum & Library at Oakland Photograph Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeman, the church historian, says FAME's legacy is distinguished and impossible to leave out when discussing the culture of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not surprising and fills me with pride that FAME established the first school in Oakland to teach Black children,” said Freeman. “The Fifteenth Street Church made a significant impact in the community. FAME recognizes in order to have a thriving community, the church must be the anchor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't until 1954, under the leadership of Rev. H. Solomon Hill, that the church moved to its present location and became First African Methodist Episcopal Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-800x732.jpg\" alt=\"An archival photo of a scrapbook cover with blue lettering and image of a building with a cross diagonally in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-800x732.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-1020x933.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-160x146.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-1536x1405.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-2048x1873.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Relocation-Services-scrapbook-cover-1958-1920x1756.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An archival photo of a Relocation Services scrapbook cover at FAME church, circa 1958. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of African American Museum & Library at Oakland Photograph Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“FAME, for more than 160 years, has been an integral part of Oakland and has been involved in helping it develop into the kind of community that is recognized across the country,\" said Rev. Dr. Harold R. Mayberry, presiding elder and former pastor of FAME. \"So over the past several years, we've had a big shoe giveaway at the [Oakland] Coliseum. And for FAME to have given away over 10,000 new shoes by partnering with the community to share in that kind of effort, it speaks to FAME's ability to generate the kind of relationships necessary to make things happen in this community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Irma Lastra, a lifelong member of FAME and frequent volunteer, the shoe program was started years ago as an annual giveaway of 500 pairs of shoes and grew from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an awesome experience and thousands of people would attend,” Lastra recalled. “We also have Tent City, which is the outreach where we would go to the different tent cities and bless them with different things. We would pray with them, sing happy birthday and were very personable, hands on. We assist people and pay their bills, their rent, whatever the need is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A distinguished middle-aged Black man wearing a blue collared shirt and blue jacket sits in a well-lit living room, his eyes looking into the distance\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63594_003_KQED_ReverendHaroldMayberry_03092023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Harold Mayberry, presiding elder and former pastor of FAME, at his home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FAME’s numerous community service and outreach programs include an extensive feeding ministry, operating three times a week and providing hot meals to unhoused members of the community. The food programs were in service during the peak of the pandemic as well, and Smith is in discussions with other congregations to use their kitchen facilities to continue operations. Under Mayberry’s leadership in 1996, the church began a prison ministry, computer training program, travel ministry, free income tax return assistance, and a weekly radio broadcast program on KDIA 1640 AM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I call FAME America's church because I personally believe that everybody who loves this town, everybody who loves the Bay Area, is going to play a part in rebuilding because of its history.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Pastor Rodney D. Smith, First African Methodist Episcopal Church","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to Freeman, the church has a long history of working with local government to help alleviate social ills plaguing the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1987, Dr. Frederick O. Murph, former pastor of the FAME, was named chairperson of Mayor Lionel J. Wilson’s hunger task force,” said Freeman. “This task force was formed in response to a study that identified hunger as a growing problem. The study found that approximately 100,000 people in Oakland were at risk for hunger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the Season of Caring program, last December, the church chartered a bus to pick up unhoused community members in the nearby area, giving them dress clothes and taking them to Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar for a private dining experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a pink jumpsuit stands with both hands raised among several people who are seated in a building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Chambers, 56, bows her head during FAME's Sunday service, temporarily held at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland, on March 12. Chambers said she had been part of the church for over 20 years. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the devastating fire, there has been an outpouring of support from local leadership, community members and religious institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was told as a child you know who your real friends are when a crisis strikes, and FAME has discovered that there are real friends in the community who have stepped up to the plate to say, we are family,\" said Mayberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congregation held service a week later at Temple Beth Abraham synagogue, which will serve as a temporary home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of African American men and women stand with their hands raised and clapping as a man holds a microphone to the left.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63643_03122023_kqed_fameservice-332-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Amittia Smith closes her eyes as her husband, Pastor Rodney Smith, speaks during the First African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation's Sunday service at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland on March 12. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee was in attendance for the service, and offered to look into resources to help the church. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s office reached out to Smith to offer support as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call FAME America's church because I personally believe that everybody who loves this town, everybody who loves the Bay Area, is going to play a part in rebuilding because of its history,” said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11943566/after-devastating-fire-landmark-black-church-in-oakland-perseveres","authors":["11784"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_29600","news_32562","news_32565","news_32563","news_32564","news_32566","news_18","news_856"],"featImg":"news_11944319","label":"news"},"news_11906800":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11906800","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11906800","score":null,"sort":[1646143219000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"comunidades-lgbtq-quedan-fuera-de-la-planificacion-de-catastrofes","title":"Comunidades LGBTQ+ quedan fuera de la planificación de catástrofes","publishDate":1646143219,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1978439/queer-communities-often-left-out-of-disaster-planning-research-shows\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el incendio Tubbs se desató en 2017, las manos enguantadas de Paloma Reyes no rozaron la suave textura de los racimos de uva en las viñas durante varias semanas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"En ese tiempo de los incendios, no trabajamos\", dijo Reyes, quien acababa de llegar de un viñedo en Napa donde había estado preparando las vides para la primavera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante meses el aire lleno de humo y la amenaza de que los incendios quemaran los viñedos mantuvieron a Reyes y a otros trabajadores agrícolas fuera de los campos el tiempo suficiente como para que les afectara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"En esos meses en los que se produjo el incendio, no ahorramos lo suficiente para mantenernos a nosotros mismos durante el invierno\", dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906828\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11906828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_5589-800x1067-1.jpg\" alt='Imagen estilo \"selfie\" de Paloma Reyes, quien viste ropa para trabajar en el campo.' width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_5589-800x1067-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_5589-800x1067-1-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paloma Reyes dice que no está preparada mentalmente para otro incendio forestal, pero sabe que cuando el próximo fuego se encienda se unirá a su grupo de amistades trans. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Paloma Reyes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El incendio Tubbs fue el primer fuego que obligó a Reyes a salir de los viñedos abarrotados de humo y a refugiarse en su apartamento ubicado cerca de una línea de tren para pasajeros en Santa Rosa, en el condado de Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"El 2017 fue el año que nos marcó a todas las chicas\", dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo que mantuvo a Reyes de pie durante ese incendio, y la serie de incendios en los años posteriores, es la comunidad que ella trabajó durante seis años para fomentar \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/santarosatranslatinas\">Santa Rosa Trans Latinas\u003c/a>, una red de apoyo de personas transgénero, incluidas las trabajadoras agrícolas que se defienden mutuamente en la región vinícola de California. Reyes lleva más de dos décadas viviendo en Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nos apoyamos mutuamente\", dijo sobre las semanas después del incendio Tubbs que impidió a su comunidad trabajar. \"No fue fácil para nosotras, las chicas trans que trabajamos en la agricultura\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La vida de Reyes es un ejemplo de cómo las personas LGBTQ+ a menudo tienen que crear un espacio para sí mismas, especialmente durante las catástrofes climáticas, porque los servicios que se ofrecen a la mayoría de la gente pueden no existir o no estar disponibles para este otro grupo. Y cuando hay una catástrofe climática, las personas LGBTQ+ suelen ser más vulnerables debido a factores que se entrecruzan, como la pobreza, el encarcelamiento, la falta de vivienda, el estatus migratorio y la discriminación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11881727\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2020/05/GettyImages-1059463226-2-1920x1080.jpg\"]\"Cuando se planifica para una vulnerabilidad social, se descarta totalmente a la comunidad LGBTQ+ porque es caracterizada de raza blanca y rica\", afirmó \u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelanthonymendez.com/\">Michael Méndez\u003c/a>, profesor de política y planificación medioambiental de la Universidad de California en Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Méndez forma parte de un grupo de profesores LGBTQ+ cuya nueva investigación demuestra que \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2vODQCT_XOXvXW4q61WZ5ksus0fDm2A/view\">los esfuerzos para prepararse y recuperarse de las catástrofes excluyen habitualmente a las personas LGBTQ+\u003c/a> (sólo disponible en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los investigadores de la Universidad de Yale, la Universidad de Georgia y la Universidad de Irvine han formulado recomendaciones sobre cómo los gobiernos y los grupos de ayuda pueden hacer que la preparación y la recuperación de las catástrofes sean inclusivas y seguras para las personas LGBTQ+.\u003cbr>\nhttps://youtu.be/0xHTa7dAwkE\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Invisibilizados’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Méndez afirma que hay demasiados casos de personas LGBTQ+ que son abandonadas, maltratadas o directamente discriminadas cuando intentan obtener ayuda. En un caso, una pareja de lesbianas fingió que eran hermanas para compartir una habitación en un refugio de emergencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"También hubo varios casos que demostraron que las personas transgénero fueron detenidas durante algunos de los huracanes por usar una ducha que no coincidía con su nacimiento biológico\", dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En el 2012, la Campaña de Derechos Humanos detalló \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrc-releases-competency-guide-for-emergency-responders\">la mejor manera de trabajar en colaboración con las personas LGBTQ+\u003c/a> (sólo disponible en inglés) y eliminar la discriminación en la preparación y respuesta a los desastres. Méndez dice que, a nivel nacional, muy pocos grupos de asistencia utilizan la guía.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11852044\"]En el 2019, California aprobó una ley que obliga a los gobiernos locales a incluir \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB160\">la competencia cultural en la planificación de la preparación ante desastres\u003c/a> (sólo disponible en inglés). Méndez dice que esta legislación proporciona \"protecciones LGBTQ+ mínimas\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dice que la ley no es lo suficientemente explícita y tiene poca responsabilidad. Por ejemplo, no exige que los planificadores de catástrofes sepan dónde se concentran las comunidades LGBTQ+. Le gustaría que los legisladores presentaran un proyecto de ley que obligará a los gobiernos a analizar dónde viven las personas LGBTQ+ y a utilizar esos datos para planificar las catástrofes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Esos son los puntos ciegos que tiene incluso California\", dijo. \"Esencialmente, la comunidad LGBTQ+ aquí en California y en toda la nación se vuelve invisible en el contexto de los desastres, las políticas públicas y la planificación\".\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>El hogar es una “dura batalla”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Méndez y los demás investigadores también recomiendan encarecidamente que los planes de catástrofe reflejen las estructuras únicas de las familias LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Algunos individuos LGBTQ+ siguen siendo rechazados por sus familiares\", dijo. \"Tienen una familia elegida que consideran parte de su familia inmediata, y debería ser reconocida\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando las comunidades LGBTQ+ participan en la reducción de su propio riesgo, Méndez afirma que las pérdidas derivadas de una catástrofe son mucho menores. Dice que prevenir más daños es vital para las personas LGBTQ+ porque a menudo ya no tienen un sentido de hogar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Freddie Francis, Activista\"]'Estoy trabajando para construir una comunidad y amistades que son más fuertes … creo que si algo nos va a ayudar, será esa conexión.'[/pullquote]Los incendios en el condado de Sonoma han reavivado la necesidad de comunidad y de hogar para \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/silverspeakers\">Freddie Francis\u003c/a>, quien se trasladó en el 2017 del condado de Butte a Sebastopol, una zona que acoge a la comunidad LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Como persona trans, siempre me he sentido un poco excluido\", dijo Francis. \"Cuando encuentro un hogar, eso es algo muy difícil de conseguir. Así que, cuando algo que está fuera de mi control llega y pone eso en peligro, por supuesto que activa esos profundos temores y heridas de no tener un hogar estable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo que ha salvado a Francis del trauma anual de tener que evacuar al Área de la Bahía cuando el cielo se oscurece con el humo, es su comunidad de amistades LGBTQ+ en la zona occidental del Condado de Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Realmente hay un valor de cubrirse las espaldas unos a otros\", dijo Francis. \"Sentir esa conexión es un buen antídoto contra el aislamiento y la desesperación a veces, y tratar de cultivar pequeños momentos de alegría y conexión a lo largo de todo esto\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A medida que la crisis climática empeora, Francis dice que la población LGBTQ+ será más resistente gracias a que ya existe una cultura de ayuda mutua dentro de esa comunidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estoy trabajando para construir una comunidad y amistades que son más fuertes, y cultivar esas relaciones”, dijo Francis. “Creo que si algo nos va a ayudar, será esa conexión”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Más allá de la religión como herramienta de ayuda\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los investigadores universitarios detrás del estudio también recomiendan que servicios de ayuda sean prestados por una amplia gama de fuentes comunitarias, las cuales no sean únicamente religiosas y que también se incluya a grupos que ya trabajan con poblaciones LGBTQ+. Esto podría incluir la financiación y la formación de centros comunitarios LGBTQ+ que ya existen para que estos puedan calificarse como refugios de emergencia federales y estatales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estudio señala que la gran cantidad de ayuda proviene de fuentes religiosas y que muchas personas LGBTQ+ no se sienten cómodas recibiendo apoyo de individuos que se niegan a reconocer esta comunidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los investigadores se refieren a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/06/13/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans/\">una encuesta del Pew Research Center de 2013\u003c/a> (sólo disponible en inglés) en la que la mayoría de los encuestados \"por márgenes abrumadores\" calificaron a las seis principales religiones \"como más antipáticas que amistosas\" hacia la comunidad LGBTQ+. También encontraron que el 73% de los encuestados dicen que las iglesias evangélicas son poco amigables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La reverenda Lindsey Bell-Kerr, pastora de la iglesia \u003ca href=\"https://www.srchristchurch.org/\">Christ Church United Methodist de Santa Rosa\u003c/a>, está trabajando activamente para socavar los estereotipos sobre las iglesias y las personas LGBTQ+ para que puedan acceder fácilmente a la ayuda cuando se produzcan catástrofes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906832\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1543px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11906832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1.jpg\" alt=\"Una persona aparece parada dentro de una iglesia y lleva puesto un cubrebocas.\" width=\"1543\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1.jpg 1543w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1-1536x1153.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1543px) 100vw, 1543px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La reverenda Lindsey Bell-Kerr dice que se desviven por trabajar con la gente de Santa Rosa, para que cuando surjan necesidades sepan que pueden acudir a su congregación en busca de ayuda. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Santa Rosa es un lugar en el que todavía me encuentro con gente que me pregunta qué significan esas letras en LGBTQAI+\", dijo. \"Es una oportunidad para enseñar. Es una oportunidad para mover la aguja de la aceptación\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell-Kerr entiende que, aunque su iglesia apoya a las personas LGBTQ+, muchas personas de esta comunidad todavía no se sienten seguros en recibir ayuda de cualquier entidad de carácter religioso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"En realidad, para mí es muy útil que alguien me identifique como una persona queer\", dijo. \"Porque no parezco el tipo de persona que va a hacer que se arrepientan [por sus pecados] antes de recibir un sandwich\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rev. Lindsey Bell-Kerr\"]'Para mí es muy útil que alguien me identifique como una persona queer … porque no parezco el tipo de persona que va a hacer que se arrepientan [por sus pecados] antes de recibir un sandwich.'[/pullquote]Nadie necesita creer en ningún poder superior para recibir ayuda a través de esta iglesia. Su estacionamiento está siempre abierto para que las personas sin hogar pasen la noche en sus vehículos, y la iglesia da de comer y alberga a las personas afectadas durante los incendios forestales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Si la gente no se siente segura entrando en el edificio de la iglesia, y estamos ofreciendo comidas, tenemos contenedores para llevar y se los llevaré\", dijo Bell-Kerr. \"Ese tipo de alojamiento sólo requiere prestar atención a cómo se siente la gente y cómo van llegando a ese lugar\".\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>“Ya no soy una prisionera”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Después de los incendios de 2017, Reyes, la trabajadora agrícola de Santa Rosa, y algunos de sus amistades finalmente recibieron alimentos y fondos de algunas organizaciones locales para pagar sus facturas pendientes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero después de cuatro años de vivir a lado de la amenaza constante que representan los incendios forestales, la pandemia del coronavirus y la discriminación como persona LGBTQ+, Reyes dice que la idea de otro incendio es desalentadora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Más de KQED en Español' tag='incendios-forestales']\"No creo que esté mentalmente preparada para otro incendio\", dijo. \"Ni mis compañeros ni mi grupo trans están preparados para otro incendio de la magnitud del que ocurrió en 2017\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que no se siente preparada mentalmente para ver los cielos del Condado de Sonoma llenos de humo otra vez, Reyes dice que su comunidad de amistades y compañeros trans es la red en la que se apoyará y proveerá en los momentos de crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dice que su labor de acoger a otros trabajadores agrícolas trans en su grupo la ha liberado aún más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ya no tengo miedo\", dijo. \"El grupo me ha dado mucha fuerza para poder hablar, para no perderme en el miedo. Ya no soy una prisionera. Seguiré haciéndolo mientras viva\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Las comunidades LGBTQ+ pueden ser especialmente vulnerables a los efectos de los desastres climáticos debido a la discriminación, la pobreza, el racismo y otros factores.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1646096437,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":2220},"headData":{"title":"Comunidades LGBTQ+ quedan fuera de la planificación de catástrofes | KQED","description":"Las comunidades LGBTQ+ pueden ser especialmente vulnerables a los efectos de los desastres climáticos debido a la discriminación, la pobreza, el racismo y otros factores.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Comunidades LGBTQ+ quedan fuera de la planificación de catástrofes","datePublished":"2022-03-01T14:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2022-03-01T01:00:37.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11906800 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11906800","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/03/01/comunidades-lgbtq-quedan-fuera-de-la-planificacion-de-catastrofes/","disqusTitle":"Comunidades LGBTQ+ quedan fuera de la planificación de catástrofes","source":"KQED en Español","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/kqedenespanol/","audioUrl":"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/new-research-shows-when-disaster-strikes-lgbtq-fol","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11906800/comunidades-lgbtq-quedan-fuera-de-la-planificacion-de-catastrofes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1978439/queer-communities-often-left-out-of-disaster-planning-research-shows\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el incendio Tubbs se desató en 2017, las manos enguantadas de Paloma Reyes no rozaron la suave textura de los racimos de uva en las viñas durante varias semanas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"En ese tiempo de los incendios, no trabajamos\", dijo Reyes, quien acababa de llegar de un viñedo en Napa donde había estado preparando las vides para la primavera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante meses el aire lleno de humo y la amenaza de que los incendios quemaran los viñedos mantuvieron a Reyes y a otros trabajadores agrícolas fuera de los campos el tiempo suficiente como para que les afectara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"En esos meses en los que se produjo el incendio, no ahorramos lo suficiente para mantenernos a nosotros mismos durante el invierno\", dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906828\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11906828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_5589-800x1067-1.jpg\" alt='Imagen estilo \"selfie\" de Paloma Reyes, quien viste ropa para trabajar en el campo.' width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_5589-800x1067-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_5589-800x1067-1-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paloma Reyes dice que no está preparada mentalmente para otro incendio forestal, pero sabe que cuando el próximo fuego se encienda se unirá a su grupo de amistades trans. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Paloma Reyes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El incendio Tubbs fue el primer fuego que obligó a Reyes a salir de los viñedos abarrotados de humo y a refugiarse en su apartamento ubicado cerca de una línea de tren para pasajeros en Santa Rosa, en el condado de Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"El 2017 fue el año que nos marcó a todas las chicas\", dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo que mantuvo a Reyes de pie durante ese incendio, y la serie de incendios en los años posteriores, es la comunidad que ella trabajó durante seis años para fomentar \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/santarosatranslatinas\">Santa Rosa Trans Latinas\u003c/a>, una red de apoyo de personas transgénero, incluidas las trabajadoras agrícolas que se defienden mutuamente en la región vinícola de California. Reyes lleva más de dos décadas viviendo en Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nos apoyamos mutuamente\", dijo sobre las semanas después del incendio Tubbs que impidió a su comunidad trabajar. \"No fue fácil para nosotras, las chicas trans que trabajamos en la agricultura\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La vida de Reyes es un ejemplo de cómo las personas LGBTQ+ a menudo tienen que crear un espacio para sí mismas, especialmente durante las catástrofes climáticas, porque los servicios que se ofrecen a la mayoría de la gente pueden no existir o no estar disponibles para este otro grupo. Y cuando hay una catástrofe climática, las personas LGBTQ+ suelen ser más vulnerables debido a factores que se entrecruzan, como la pobreza, el encarcelamiento, la falta de vivienda, el estatus migratorio y la discriminación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11881727","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2020/05/GettyImages-1059463226-2-1920x1080.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"Cuando se planifica para una vulnerabilidad social, se descarta totalmente a la comunidad LGBTQ+ porque es caracterizada de raza blanca y rica\", afirmó \u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelanthonymendez.com/\">Michael Méndez\u003c/a>, profesor de política y planificación medioambiental de la Universidad de California en Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Méndez forma parte de un grupo de profesores LGBTQ+ cuya nueva investigación demuestra que \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2vODQCT_XOXvXW4q61WZ5ksus0fDm2A/view\">los esfuerzos para prepararse y recuperarse de las catástrofes excluyen habitualmente a las personas LGBTQ+\u003c/a> (sólo disponible en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los investigadores de la Universidad de Yale, la Universidad de Georgia y la Universidad de Irvine han formulado recomendaciones sobre cómo los gobiernos y los grupos de ayuda pueden hacer que la preparación y la recuperación de las catástrofes sean inclusivas y seguras para las personas LGBTQ+.\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0xHTa7dAwkE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0xHTa7dAwkE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Invisibilizados’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Méndez afirma que hay demasiados casos de personas LGBTQ+ que son abandonadas, maltratadas o directamente discriminadas cuando intentan obtener ayuda. En un caso, una pareja de lesbianas fingió que eran hermanas para compartir una habitación en un refugio de emergencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"También hubo varios casos que demostraron que las personas transgénero fueron detenidas durante algunos de los huracanes por usar una ducha que no coincidía con su nacimiento biológico\", dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En el 2012, la Campaña de Derechos Humanos detalló \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrc-releases-competency-guide-for-emergency-responders\">la mejor manera de trabajar en colaboración con las personas LGBTQ+\u003c/a> (sólo disponible en inglés) y eliminar la discriminación en la preparación y respuesta a los desastres. Méndez dice que, a nivel nacional, muy pocos grupos de asistencia utilizan la guía.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11852044","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>En el 2019, California aprobó una ley que obliga a los gobiernos locales a incluir \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB160\">la competencia cultural en la planificación de la preparación ante desastres\u003c/a> (sólo disponible en inglés). Méndez dice que esta legislación proporciona \"protecciones LGBTQ+ mínimas\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dice que la ley no es lo suficientemente explícita y tiene poca responsabilidad. Por ejemplo, no exige que los planificadores de catástrofes sepan dónde se concentran las comunidades LGBTQ+. Le gustaría que los legisladores presentaran un proyecto de ley que obligará a los gobiernos a analizar dónde viven las personas LGBTQ+ y a utilizar esos datos para planificar las catástrofes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Esos son los puntos ciegos que tiene incluso California\", dijo. \"Esencialmente, la comunidad LGBTQ+ aquí en California y en toda la nación se vuelve invisible en el contexto de los desastres, las políticas públicas y la planificación\".\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>El hogar es una “dura batalla”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Méndez y los demás investigadores también recomiendan encarecidamente que los planes de catástrofe reflejen las estructuras únicas de las familias LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Algunos individuos LGBTQ+ siguen siendo rechazados por sus familiares\", dijo. \"Tienen una familia elegida que consideran parte de su familia inmediata, y debería ser reconocida\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando las comunidades LGBTQ+ participan en la reducción de su propio riesgo, Méndez afirma que las pérdidas derivadas de una catástrofe son mucho menores. Dice que prevenir más daños es vital para las personas LGBTQ+ porque a menudo ya no tienen un sentido de hogar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Estoy trabajando para construir una comunidad y amistades que son más fuertes … creo que si algo nos va a ayudar, será esa conexión.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Freddie Francis, Activista","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Los incendios en el condado de Sonoma han reavivado la necesidad de comunidad y de hogar para \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/silverspeakers\">Freddie Francis\u003c/a>, quien se trasladó en el 2017 del condado de Butte a Sebastopol, una zona que acoge a la comunidad LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Como persona trans, siempre me he sentido un poco excluido\", dijo Francis. \"Cuando encuentro un hogar, eso es algo muy difícil de conseguir. Así que, cuando algo que está fuera de mi control llega y pone eso en peligro, por supuesto que activa esos profundos temores y heridas de no tener un hogar estable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo que ha salvado a Francis del trauma anual de tener que evacuar al Área de la Bahía cuando el cielo se oscurece con el humo, es su comunidad de amistades LGBTQ+ en la zona occidental del Condado de Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Realmente hay un valor de cubrirse las espaldas unos a otros\", dijo Francis. \"Sentir esa conexión es un buen antídoto contra el aislamiento y la desesperación a veces, y tratar de cultivar pequeños momentos de alegría y conexión a lo largo de todo esto\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A medida que la crisis climática empeora, Francis dice que la población LGBTQ+ será más resistente gracias a que ya existe una cultura de ayuda mutua dentro de esa comunidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estoy trabajando para construir una comunidad y amistades que son más fuertes, y cultivar esas relaciones”, dijo Francis. “Creo que si algo nos va a ayudar, será esa conexión”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Más allá de la religión como herramienta de ayuda\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los investigadores universitarios detrás del estudio también recomiendan que servicios de ayuda sean prestados por una amplia gama de fuentes comunitarias, las cuales no sean únicamente religiosas y que también se incluya a grupos que ya trabajan con poblaciones LGBTQ+. Esto podría incluir la financiación y la formación de centros comunitarios LGBTQ+ que ya existen para que estos puedan calificarse como refugios de emergencia federales y estatales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estudio señala que la gran cantidad de ayuda proviene de fuentes religiosas y que muchas personas LGBTQ+ no se sienten cómodas recibiendo apoyo de individuos que se niegan a reconocer esta comunidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los investigadores se refieren a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/06/13/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans/\">una encuesta del Pew Research Center de 2013\u003c/a> (sólo disponible en inglés) en la que la mayoría de los encuestados \"por márgenes abrumadores\" calificaron a las seis principales religiones \"como más antipáticas que amistosas\" hacia la comunidad LGBTQ+. También encontraron que el 73% de los encuestados dicen que las iglesias evangélicas son poco amigables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La reverenda Lindsey Bell-Kerr, pastora de la iglesia \u003ca href=\"https://www.srchristchurch.org/\">Christ Church United Methodist de Santa Rosa\u003c/a>, está trabajando activamente para socavar los estereotipos sobre las iglesias y las personas LGBTQ+ para que puedan acceder fácilmente a la ayuda cuando se produzcan catástrofes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906832\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1543px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11906832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1.jpg\" alt=\"Una persona aparece parada dentro de una iglesia y lleva puesto un cubrebocas.\" width=\"1543\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1.jpg 1543w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7223-scaled-e1645572428462-1-1536x1153.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1543px) 100vw, 1543px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La reverenda Lindsey Bell-Kerr dice que se desviven por trabajar con la gente de Santa Rosa, para que cuando surjan necesidades sepan que pueden acudir a su congregación en busca de ayuda. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Santa Rosa es un lugar en el que todavía me encuentro con gente que me pregunta qué significan esas letras en LGBTQAI+\", dijo. \"Es una oportunidad para enseñar. Es una oportunidad para mover la aguja de la aceptación\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell-Kerr entiende que, aunque su iglesia apoya a las personas LGBTQ+, muchas personas de esta comunidad todavía no se sienten seguros en recibir ayuda de cualquier entidad de carácter religioso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"En realidad, para mí es muy útil que alguien me identifique como una persona queer\", dijo. \"Porque no parezco el tipo de persona que va a hacer que se arrepientan [por sus pecados] antes de recibir un sandwich\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Para mí es muy útil que alguien me identifique como una persona queer … porque no parezco el tipo de persona que va a hacer que se arrepientan [por sus pecados] antes de recibir un sandwich.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rev. Lindsey Bell-Kerr","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nadie necesita creer en ningún poder superior para recibir ayuda a través de esta iglesia. Su estacionamiento está siempre abierto para que las personas sin hogar pasen la noche en sus vehículos, y la iglesia da de comer y alberga a las personas afectadas durante los incendios forestales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Si la gente no se siente segura entrando en el edificio de la iglesia, y estamos ofreciendo comidas, tenemos contenedores para llevar y se los llevaré\", dijo Bell-Kerr. \"Ese tipo de alojamiento sólo requiere prestar atención a cómo se siente la gente y cómo van llegando a ese lugar\".\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>“Ya no soy una prisionera”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Después de los incendios de 2017, Reyes, la trabajadora agrícola de Santa Rosa, y algunos de sus amistades finalmente recibieron alimentos y fondos de algunas organizaciones locales para pagar sus facturas pendientes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero después de cuatro años de vivir a lado de la amenaza constante que representan los incendios forestales, la pandemia del coronavirus y la discriminación como persona LGBTQ+, Reyes dice que la idea de otro incendio es desalentadora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Más de KQED en Español ","tag":"incendios-forestales"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"No creo que esté mentalmente preparada para otro incendio\", dijo. \"Ni mis compañeros ni mi grupo trans están preparados para otro incendio de la magnitud del que ocurrió en 2017\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que no se siente preparada mentalmente para ver los cielos del Condado de Sonoma llenos de humo otra vez, Reyes dice que su comunidad de amistades y compañeros trans es la red en la que se apoyará y proveerá en los momentos de crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dice que su labor de acoger a otros trabajadores agrícolas trans en su grupo la ha liberado aún más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ya no tengo miedo\", dijo. \"El grupo me ha dado mucha fuerza para poder hablar, para no perderme en el miedo. Ya no soy una prisionera. Seguiré haciéndolo mientras viva\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11906800/comunidades-lgbtq-quedan-fuera-de-la-planificacion-de-catastrofes","authors":["11746"],"categories":["news_19906","news_28523","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_30726","news_30727","news_28586","news_28423","news_28462","news_27775","news_28444","news_82","news_20004","news_20003","news_19345","news_30586","news_29625","news_856","news_4981","news_30725"],"featImg":"news_11906812","label":"source_news_11906800"},"news_11901478":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11901478","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11901478","score":null,"sort":[1642258905000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"we-just-have-faith-gold-country-jewish-community-strives-to-connect-through-covid","title":"'We Just Have Faith': Gold Country Jewish Community Strives to Connect Through COVID","publishDate":1642258905,"format":"audio","headTitle":"California Foodways | The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In February 2020, about 25 members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherlodejewishcommunity.org/\">Mother Lode Jewish Community\u003c/a> gathered at a house in the town of Sonora, a gold country community in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Tuolumne County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They held a seder, eating fruits and nuts indigenous to the Holy Land, shared a potluck and planted a cherry tree. They were celebrating the Jewish holiday Tu BiShvat, a time to gather around food, and to honor the time of year the earliest-blooming trees emerge in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the holiday begins the evening of Sunday, Jan. 16. Rabbi Andra Greenwald explained that, in these times, it's like a Jewish Arbor Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it's been said that the act of planting a tree is in and of itself an act of faith,\" she said. \"We never really know, do we, whether we'll have sun or rain. We just have faith.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrating holidays like these in rural areas like Tuolumne County is different from how it is in California’s cities. The closest synagogues are in Stockton and Modesto, over an hour away. So more than 30 years ago, a few families nearby organized the Mother Lode Jewish Community. Now, membership in the MLJC includes more than 100 people from four counties. Their rabbi comes in from Modesto for some holidays and services. Under normal conditions, the group meets at least once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tu BiShvat gathering in 2020 was the last time the group met in person. As with so many groups across the state, the COVID pandemic has made connection difficult. Out of caution, the MLJC has continued to meet remotely throughout the pandemic. They have a lot of older members, some who are immunocompromised. Some members have rushed to get vaccinated and boosted, while others have chosen not to be vaccinated. And that's common for the area — about 50% of Tuolumne County residents are fully vaccinated, compared with over 70% of Californians. With members not all agreeing on COVID, will the group be able to retain its family-like feel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A long history\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery.jpg\" alt=\"sign reading 'Pioneer Jewish Cemetery' hangs from tree with green grass and cemetery visible in background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first Jewish people came to Sonora, in rural Tuolumne County, in 1849. This cemetery was built a few years later. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This area of California has had a Jewish population since the Gold Rush. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pioneerjewishcemeteries.org/sonora\">Pioneer Jewish Cemetery\u003c/a>, on a quiet block in Sonora next to the sheriff’s station, is about 170 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Perry, the historian for the city of Sonora, explains that the first Jews to arrive were single men, fleeing persecution and restrictions in Germany, France, Poland and later Russia. Most came to be merchants rather than miners. A community of over 100 people developed in Tuolumne County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'A connection I can't explain'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller.jpg\" alt=\"profile of woman with long brown hair at home, standing in front of yellow wall\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller-1020x735.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller-1536x1107.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">JoLynn Miller says she'll 'fight like hell' to retain the family feel of the Mother Lode Jewish Community, despite members’ different responses to COVID. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For JoLynn Miller, the cemetery provides a link between the Jewish communities of the Gold Rush era and today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a connection that I can't explain,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller moved to Tuolumne County nearly 10 years ago to work with kids in 4H, and felt adopted into the MLJC soon afterward. A Southern California native, Miller grew up Jewish by family tradition — \"Jew-ish,\" she jokes — but she became more connected to a Jewish community after she moved and discovered the MLJC. Before, she’d never celebrated Tu BiShvat — now it’s one of her favorite holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really, for me, connects the cyclical nature of life along with the Jewish calendar, along with the agricultural world,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’ll “fight like hell” to retain the family feel of the MLJC, despite the members’ different responses to COVID: “How do we move forward trying to be respectful of everybody, knowing that the way that this is all turned out is so polarizing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'There is a heart connection'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda.jpg\" alt=\"profile shot of woman with long brown hair standing in front of pine tree outside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda-1536x1176.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theda Wagner, originally from Kentucky, says she always felt at home in the Mother Lode Jewish Community. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Theda Wagner was born in Kentucky into a Baptist family, then joined the Seventh-day Adventists, but she had influential adults in her life who were Jewish. When she had kids, she sent them to Hebrew school to understand the Judeo part of Judeo-Christianity. And when she met her current husband, one connection was their interest in learning more about Judaism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we just are now on the journey, side by side,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And being on that journey in Tuolumne County, for them, means commitment. “It's easier to just show up and sit in a pew and be passive, but that's not where we've been placed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three generations of her family gather for Shabbat dinner. They host Saturday religious services — “and then we eat,” she says with a laugh. Wagner says she always felt at home in the MLJC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may not be on the same page religiously or politically or anything else, but there is a heart connection,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'We cherish our time together'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901801\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 959px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GatSlor.jpg\" alt=\"profile shot of woman in colorful clothes standing in front of purple curtain, smiling\" width=\"959\" height=\"1177\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GatSlor.jpg 959w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GatSlor-800x982.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GatSlor-160x196.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gat Slor joined the MLJC after moving to Sonora from the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gat Slor moved to Sonora from the Bay Area, where there’s a much larger Jewish community — but she says she loves the diversity of this group: interfaith couples, younger people and older, political conservatives, liberals, people that are observant and some that are \"submarine Jews\" who surface at Passover and the Jewish new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we cherish our time together,” she says, “even though we're all very different. It feels like they're kind of my gang, my people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found a small silver lining in remote gatherings of the MLJC. She says, in the past, for Passover, “I'd be like, ‘Well, I'll buy a box of matzos and I'm good.’ This time I kind of had to be responsible. I made my own chicken soup. So that was really cool. I had to kind of grow up and not expect the community to feed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, for a while now, she’s wanted the MLJC to start meeting in person, and not just stay on Zoom: “Some of us have met, but it hasn't been official. So that part, it's a little tricky. I don’t like being divided. We’re already divided by different things. And we still love each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they’re not going to agree on everything, “but I hope that we can forgive each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'[COVID] has not stopped us, and it won't'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP.jpg\" alt=\"older woman wearing bright blug and smiling relaxes on her couch at home, petting a small white dog\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1403\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP-1020x745.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP-1536x1122.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Perrin, 85, says Jews have had to find a way to practice their religion under adverse circumstances over centuries, 'and that's what we're doing now.' \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eighty-five-year-old Ruth Perrin converted to Judaism five years ago. She says the MLJC gives her a sense of belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sharing of experiences, sharing of our beliefs, and acknowledgment to one another and to myself that I am, in fact, for lack of a better word, a practicing Jew,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the pandemic circumstances, “I think we've managed quite well,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has affected how we commune, how we gather as a group, but [COVID] has not stopped us, and it won't. Through the centuries, Jews have had to find a way to practice their religion under adverse circumstances. And that's what we're doing now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This weekend, members of a Jewish community in Tuolumne County are celebrating Tu BiShvat, what some call 'Jewish Arbor Day' — and trying to keep the pandemic from pulling them apart.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1642535069,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1298},"headData":{"title":"'We Just Have Faith': Gold Country Jewish Community Strives to Connect Through COVID | KQED","description":"This weekend, members of a Jewish community in Tuolumne County are celebrating Tu BiShvat, what some call 'Jewish Arbor Day' — and trying to keep the pandemic from pulling them apart.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'We Just Have Faith': Gold Country Jewish Community Strives to Connect Through COVID","datePublished":"2022-01-15T15:01:45.000Z","dateModified":"2022-01-18T19:44:29.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11901478 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11901478","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/01/15/we-just-have-faith-gold-country-jewish-community-strives-to-connect-through-covid/","disqusTitle":"'We Just Have Faith': Gold Country Jewish Community Strives to Connect Through COVID","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/3bf0c990-0eb8-402e-9f92-ae1d01711e9d/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11901478/we-just-have-faith-gold-country-jewish-community-strives-to-connect-through-covid","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In February 2020, about 25 members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherlodejewishcommunity.org/\">Mother Lode Jewish Community\u003c/a> gathered at a house in the town of Sonora, a gold country community in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Tuolumne County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They held a seder, eating fruits and nuts indigenous to the Holy Land, shared a potluck and planted a cherry tree. They were celebrating the Jewish holiday Tu BiShvat, a time to gather around food, and to honor the time of year the earliest-blooming trees emerge in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the holiday begins the evening of Sunday, Jan. 16. Rabbi Andra Greenwald explained that, in these times, it's like a Jewish Arbor Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it's been said that the act of planting a tree is in and of itself an act of faith,\" she said. \"We never really know, do we, whether we'll have sun or rain. We just have faith.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrating holidays like these in rural areas like Tuolumne County is different from how it is in California’s cities. The closest synagogues are in Stockton and Modesto, over an hour away. So more than 30 years ago, a few families nearby organized the Mother Lode Jewish Community. Now, membership in the MLJC includes more than 100 people from four counties. Their rabbi comes in from Modesto for some holidays and services. Under normal conditions, the group meets at least once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tu BiShvat gathering in 2020 was the last time the group met in person. As with so many groups across the state, the COVID pandemic has made connection difficult. Out of caution, the MLJC has continued to meet remotely throughout the pandemic. They have a lot of older members, some who are immunocompromised. Some members have rushed to get vaccinated and boosted, while others have chosen not to be vaccinated. And that's common for the area — about 50% of Tuolumne County residents are fully vaccinated, compared with over 70% of Californians. With members not all agreeing on COVID, will the group be able to retain its family-like feel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A long history\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery.jpg\" alt=\"sign reading 'Pioneer Jewish Cemetery' hangs from tree with green grass and cemetery visible in background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/PioneerJewishCemetery-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first Jewish people came to Sonora, in rural Tuolumne County, in 1849. This cemetery was built a few years later. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This area of California has had a Jewish population since the Gold Rush. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pioneerjewishcemeteries.org/sonora\">Pioneer Jewish Cemetery\u003c/a>, on a quiet block in Sonora next to the sheriff’s station, is about 170 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Perry, the historian for the city of Sonora, explains that the first Jews to arrive were single men, fleeing persecution and restrictions in Germany, France, Poland and later Russia. Most came to be merchants rather than miners. A community of over 100 people developed in Tuolumne County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'A connection I can't explain'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller.jpg\" alt=\"profile of woman with long brown hair at home, standing in front of yellow wall\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller-1020x735.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/JMiller-1536x1107.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">JoLynn Miller says she'll 'fight like hell' to retain the family feel of the Mother Lode Jewish Community, despite members’ different responses to COVID. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For JoLynn Miller, the cemetery provides a link between the Jewish communities of the Gold Rush era and today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a connection that I can't explain,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller moved to Tuolumne County nearly 10 years ago to work with kids in 4H, and felt adopted into the MLJC soon afterward. A Southern California native, Miller grew up Jewish by family tradition — \"Jew-ish,\" she jokes — but she became more connected to a Jewish community after she moved and discovered the MLJC. Before, she’d never celebrated Tu BiShvat — now it’s one of her favorite holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really, for me, connects the cyclical nature of life along with the Jewish calendar, along with the agricultural world,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’ll “fight like hell” to retain the family feel of the MLJC, despite the members’ different responses to COVID: “How do we move forward trying to be respectful of everybody, knowing that the way that this is all turned out is so polarizing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'There is a heart connection'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda.jpg\" alt=\"profile shot of woman with long brown hair standing in front of pine tree outside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Theda-1536x1176.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theda Wagner, originally from Kentucky, says she always felt at home in the Mother Lode Jewish Community. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Theda Wagner was born in Kentucky into a Baptist family, then joined the Seventh-day Adventists, but she had influential adults in her life who were Jewish. When she had kids, she sent them to Hebrew school to understand the Judeo part of Judeo-Christianity. And when she met her current husband, one connection was their interest in learning more about Judaism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we just are now on the journey, side by side,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And being on that journey in Tuolumne County, for them, means commitment. “It's easier to just show up and sit in a pew and be passive, but that's not where we've been placed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three generations of her family gather for Shabbat dinner. They host Saturday religious services — “and then we eat,” she says with a laugh. Wagner says she always felt at home in the MLJC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may not be on the same page religiously or politically or anything else, but there is a heart connection,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'We cherish our time together'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901801\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 959px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GatSlor.jpg\" alt=\"profile shot of woman in colorful clothes standing in front of purple curtain, smiling\" width=\"959\" height=\"1177\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GatSlor.jpg 959w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GatSlor-800x982.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GatSlor-160x196.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gat Slor joined the MLJC after moving to Sonora from the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gat Slor moved to Sonora from the Bay Area, where there’s a much larger Jewish community — but she says she loves the diversity of this group: interfaith couples, younger people and older, political conservatives, liberals, people that are observant and some that are \"submarine Jews\" who surface at Passover and the Jewish new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we cherish our time together,” she says, “even though we're all very different. It feels like they're kind of my gang, my people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found a small silver lining in remote gatherings of the MLJC. She says, in the past, for Passover, “I'd be like, ‘Well, I'll buy a box of matzos and I'm good.’ This time I kind of had to be responsible. I made my own chicken soup. So that was really cool. I had to kind of grow up and not expect the community to feed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, for a while now, she’s wanted the MLJC to start meeting in person, and not just stay on Zoom: “Some of us have met, but it hasn't been official. So that part, it's a little tricky. I don’t like being divided. We’re already divided by different things. And we still love each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they’re not going to agree on everything, “but I hope that we can forgive each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'[COVID] has not stopped us, and it won't'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP.jpg\" alt=\"older woman wearing bright blug and smiling relaxes on her couch at home, petting a small white dog\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1403\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP-1020x745.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RuthP-1536x1122.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Perrin, 85, says Jews have had to find a way to practice their religion under adverse circumstances over centuries, 'and that's what we're doing now.' \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eighty-five-year-old Ruth Perrin converted to Judaism five years ago. She says the MLJC gives her a sense of belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sharing of experiences, sharing of our beliefs, and acknowledgment to one another and to myself that I am, in fact, for lack of a better word, a practicing Jew,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the pandemic circumstances, “I think we've managed quite well,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has affected how we commune, how we gather as a group, but [COVID] has not stopped us, and it won't. Through the centuries, Jews have had to find a way to practice their religion under adverse circumstances. And that's what we're doing now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11901478/we-just-have-faith-gold-country-jewish-community-strives-to-connect-through-covid","authors":["3229"],"programs":["news_26731"],"series":["news_17045"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17950","news_856","news_30516","news_4947"],"featImg":"news_11901811","label":"news_26731"},"news_11890241":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11890241","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11890241","score":null,"sort":[1632871831000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"getting-a-religious-exemption-to-the-vaccine-mandate-may-not-be-easy-as-you-think","title":"Getting a Religious Exemption to the Vaccine Mandate May Not Be As Easy As You Think","publishDate":1632871831,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>More and more employers are ordering workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus without the option of getting tested instead. Now workers are pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., more than 400 fire and emergency medical workers applied for religious exemptions to the city's vaccine mandate. In Los Angeles, roughly a quarter of the police department is expected to seek religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many of those requests will ultimately be approved is unknown. Already, some employers are taking a harder line than others. Under the law, employers have a lot of discretion when granting religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the answers to some questions that may come up when navigating the process of a religious exemptions. Don't have time to read the whole guide? Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#obligations\">\u003cstrong>What are employer obligations to workers when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#reasonable\">What does \"reasonable\" mean when it comes to a reasonable accommodation?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#hardship\">\u003cstrong>What's considered an undue hardship when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#head\">Does it matter what the head of my religion says about the coronavirus vaccines?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tips\">\u003cstrong>What about all the tips being shared online for getting a religious exemption?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"obligations\">\u003c/a>What are employer obligations to workers when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The right to request a religious exemption stems from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects workers from discrimination on the basis of religion, among other things. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, says employers must provide reasonable accommodations for workers who have sincerely held religious beliefs — unless doing so poses an undue hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, employers may probe whether an employee's religious belief is in fact sincere. They may ask questions about that employee's vaccination history or church attendance. If the employer determines the belief is not sincere, it may deny the exemption request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if an employee's religious belief is determined to be sincere, it's the employer who decides what the reasonable accommodation will be. It does not have to be the accommodation requested by the employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890327\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890327 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A handful of people sit at a distance from each other in church pews backed by a brightly lit window.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents sit in the church observation area after receiving their second dose of the Moderna vaccine at Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church UCC on March 12, 2021, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"reasonable\">\u003c/a>What counts as 'reasonable' when it comes to a reasonable accommodation?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What one employer deems to be reasonable, another may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Conway, Ark., Matt Troup, CEO of Conway Regional Health System, has granted 45 religious exemptions to employees who refused to get a coronavirus vaccine. Their objections were largely based on the employees' beliefs that vaccines that used fetal cells in research, testing or production should not be put into their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Public health officials say fetal cell lines developed decades ago in the laboratory were used to develop and test the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, a common practice in pharmaceutical research. Other fetal cell lines are being used in the production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. But the vaccines themselves do not contain any fetal cells.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before granting the religious exemptions, Troup sent the employees a list of 28 commonly used medicines that also used fetal cells in their research, testing or development — a list that includes Tylenol, Motrin, Tums, Ex-Lax and other medicine cabinet staples. He asked employees to attest to not using any of those medicines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to know that if they're going to be consistent in their beliefs, that applies to a lot of different things other than the COVID vaccine,\" Troup says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presented with the list, the employees who had requested religious exemptions still declined the vaccines. So Troup informed them they'd have to undergo regular COVID-19 testing. With 95% of his workforce vaccinated, he felt it was a reasonable accommodation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like we've accomplished our goal to protect our staff, our patients and our community,\" he says. \"We want to respect people's religious freedoms and their ability to make these decisions to the point that we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some employers have made it clear they will be less accommodating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NBAPR/status/1441550983125889033\">NBA recently denied a religious exemption request\u003c/a> from Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins, announcing that the athlete will not be able to play at any home games in San Francisco, which has a vaccine mandate for large indoor events, until he fulfills the city's vaccination requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NBAPR/status/1441550983125889033\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Airlines has granted religious exemptions to a small number of employees, but the reasonable accommodation the airline has provided is to put the employees on indefinite unpaid leave without regular benefits. A handful of United employees have sued, saying unpaid leave is not a reasonable accommodation but rather an adverse employment action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Román Hernández, a labor and employment attorney with Troutman Pepper in Portland, Oregon, says historically, courts have upheld unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation in religious exemption cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's probably not the accommodation that those workers wanted, but that is something that the employer is providing,\" Hernández says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"hardship\">\u003c/a>What's considered an undue hardship when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Remember that under the law, employers must provide reasonable accommodations to workers seeking religious exemptions — unless doing so poses an undue hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important to look at how the EEOC defines undue hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In religious exemption cases, undue hardship is defined as \"more than a \u003cem>de minimis\u003c/em>,\" or minimal, cost or burden on the operation of the employer's business. Hernández points out that an accommodation that involves shift changes could constitute more than a minimal burden to an employer, allowing the employer to deny such an accommodation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its defense, United has argued that allowing unvaccinated employees to continue working in customer-facing roles on-site \"would impose extraordinary — not just \u003cem>de minimis\u003c/em> — costs on United and the public.\" The airline says it would have to implement a coronavirus testing program at more than 100 domestic airports and offices. Running such a program would cause a heavier workload for vaccinated co-workers — and United notes that 97% of its employees are now vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"head\">\u003c/a>Does it matter what the head of my religion says about the coronavirus vaccines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably not, because religious exemptions ultimately come down to an employee's personal belief and whether an employer can find a reasonable accommodation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pontifex/status/1427875189509984261?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no major religion has come out in opposition to the vaccines. In fact, prominent religious leaders are endorsing them. Pope Francis has told Catholics that getting vaccinated is \"an act of love,\" for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the Christian Science Church, which counsels prayer rather than medical care, says it doesn't have an official policy on vaccinations. It leaves it up to individuals to make that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"tips\">\u003c/a>What about all the tips being shared online for getting a religious exemption?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='vaccines']Mentions of religious mandates on social media and traditional media outlets have jumped ninefold since June, with most of that spike coming after the White House announced vaccine mandates for federal employees in early September, according to an analysis by media tracking firm Zignal Labs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Facebook groups opposed to vaccine mandates, members frequently ask about how to obtain a religious exemption and what to say when petitioning their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these groups, members regularly cite misleading claims that vaccines contain fetal cells. Others share links to online churches and self-described \"consultants\" offering signed exemption letters. One company offering these services charges $175 for phone consultations, research, sample forms and a signed letter from a pastor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keep in mind, the employer really has a lot of discretion in granting these exemptions whether or not you have one of these signed letters. So people should probably think twice about paying for these services.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We answer frequent questions that come up during the process to request a religious exemption for the coronavirus vaccine mandate, including what is considered an undue hardship.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1632875892,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1326},"headData":{"title":"Getting a Religious Exemption to the Vaccine Mandate May Not Be As Easy As You Think | KQED","description":"We answer frequent questions that come up during the process to request a religious exemption for the coronavirus vaccine mandate, including what is considered an undue hardship.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Getting a Religious Exemption to the Vaccine Mandate May Not Be As Easy As You Think","datePublished":"2021-09-28T23:30:31.000Z","dateModified":"2021-09-29T00:38:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11890241 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11890241","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/28/getting-a-religious-exemption-to-the-vaccine-mandate-may-not-be-easy-as-you-think/","disqusTitle":"Getting a Religious Exemption to the Vaccine Mandate May Not Be As Easy As You Think","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/536432406/andrea-hsu\">Andrea Hsu\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/763523701/shannon-bond\">Shannon Bond\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11890241/getting-a-religious-exemption-to-the-vaccine-mandate-may-not-be-easy-as-you-think","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More and more employers are ordering workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus without the option of getting tested instead. Now workers are pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., more than 400 fire and emergency medical workers applied for religious exemptions to the city's vaccine mandate. In Los Angeles, roughly a quarter of the police department is expected to seek religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many of those requests will ultimately be approved is unknown. Already, some employers are taking a harder line than others. Under the law, employers have a lot of discretion when granting religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the answers to some questions that may come up when navigating the process of a religious exemptions. Don't have time to read the whole guide? Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#obligations\">\u003cstrong>What are employer obligations to workers when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#reasonable\">What does \"reasonable\" mean when it comes to a reasonable accommodation?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#hardship\">\u003cstrong>What's considered an undue hardship when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#head\">Does it matter what the head of my religion says about the coronavirus vaccines?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tips\">\u003cstrong>What about all the tips being shared online for getting a religious exemption?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"obligations\">\u003c/a>What are employer obligations to workers when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The right to request a religious exemption stems from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects workers from discrimination on the basis of religion, among other things. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, says employers must provide reasonable accommodations for workers who have sincerely held religious beliefs — unless doing so poses an undue hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, employers may probe whether an employee's religious belief is in fact sincere. They may ask questions about that employee's vaccination history or church attendance. If the employer determines the belief is not sincere, it may deny the exemption request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if an employee's religious belief is determined to be sincere, it's the employer who decides what the reasonable accommodation will be. It does not have to be the accommodation requested by the employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890327\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890327 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A handful of people sit at a distance from each other in church pews backed by a brightly lit window.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1306756648-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents sit in the church observation area after receiving their second dose of the Moderna vaccine at Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church UCC on March 12, 2021, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"reasonable\">\u003c/a>What counts as 'reasonable' when it comes to a reasonable accommodation?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What one employer deems to be reasonable, another may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Conway, Ark., Matt Troup, CEO of Conway Regional Health System, has granted 45 religious exemptions to employees who refused to get a coronavirus vaccine. Their objections were largely based on the employees' beliefs that vaccines that used fetal cells in research, testing or production should not be put into their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Public health officials say fetal cell lines developed decades ago in the laboratory were used to develop and test the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, a common practice in pharmaceutical research. Other fetal cell lines are being used in the production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. But the vaccines themselves do not contain any fetal cells.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before granting the religious exemptions, Troup sent the employees a list of 28 commonly used medicines that also used fetal cells in their research, testing or development — a list that includes Tylenol, Motrin, Tums, Ex-Lax and other medicine cabinet staples. He asked employees to attest to not using any of those medicines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to know that if they're going to be consistent in their beliefs, that applies to a lot of different things other than the COVID vaccine,\" Troup says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presented with the list, the employees who had requested religious exemptions still declined the vaccines. So Troup informed them they'd have to undergo regular COVID-19 testing. With 95% of his workforce vaccinated, he felt it was a reasonable accommodation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like we've accomplished our goal to protect our staff, our patients and our community,\" he says. \"We want to respect people's religious freedoms and their ability to make these decisions to the point that we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some employers have made it clear they will be less accommodating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NBAPR/status/1441550983125889033\">NBA recently denied a religious exemption request\u003c/a> from Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins, announcing that the athlete will not be able to play at any home games in San Francisco, which has a vaccine mandate for large indoor events, until he fulfills the city's vaccination requirements.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1441550983125889033"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>United Airlines has granted religious exemptions to a small number of employees, but the reasonable accommodation the airline has provided is to put the employees on indefinite unpaid leave without regular benefits. A handful of United employees have sued, saying unpaid leave is not a reasonable accommodation but rather an adverse employment action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Román Hernández, a labor and employment attorney with Troutman Pepper in Portland, Oregon, says historically, courts have upheld unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation in religious exemption cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's probably not the accommodation that those workers wanted, but that is something that the employer is providing,\" Hernández says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"hardship\">\u003c/a>What's considered an undue hardship when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Remember that under the law, employers must provide reasonable accommodations to workers seeking religious exemptions — unless doing so poses an undue hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important to look at how the EEOC defines undue hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In religious exemption cases, undue hardship is defined as \"more than a \u003cem>de minimis\u003c/em>,\" or minimal, cost or burden on the operation of the employer's business. Hernández points out that an accommodation that involves shift changes could constitute more than a minimal burden to an employer, allowing the employer to deny such an accommodation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its defense, United has argued that allowing unvaccinated employees to continue working in customer-facing roles on-site \"would impose extraordinary — not just \u003cem>de minimis\u003c/em> — costs on United and the public.\" The airline says it would have to implement a coronavirus testing program at more than 100 domestic airports and offices. Running such a program would cause a heavier workload for vaccinated co-workers — and United notes that 97% of its employees are now vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"head\">\u003c/a>Does it matter what the head of my religion says about the coronavirus vaccines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably not, because religious exemptions ultimately come down to an employee's personal belief and whether an employer can find a reasonable accommodation.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1427875189509984261"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>So far, no major religion has come out in opposition to the vaccines. In fact, prominent religious leaders are endorsing them. Pope Francis has told Catholics that getting vaccinated is \"an act of love,\" for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the Christian Science Church, which counsels prayer rather than medical care, says it doesn't have an official policy on vaccinations. It leaves it up to individuals to make that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"tips\">\u003c/a>What about all the tips being shared online for getting a religious exemption?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"vaccines"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mentions of religious mandates on social media and traditional media outlets have jumped ninefold since June, with most of that spike coming after the White House announced vaccine mandates for federal employees in early September, according to an analysis by media tracking firm Zignal Labs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Facebook groups opposed to vaccine mandates, members frequently ask about how to obtain a religious exemption and what to say when petitioning their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these groups, members regularly cite misleading claims that vaccines contain fetal cells. Others share links to online churches and self-described \"consultants\" offering signed exemption letters. One company offering these services charges $175 for phone consultations, research, sample forms and a signed letter from a pastor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keep in mind, the employer really has a lot of discretion in granting these exemptions whether or not you have one of these signed letters. So people should probably think twice about paying for these services.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11890241/getting-a-religious-exemption-to-the-vaccine-mandate-may-not-be-easy-as-you-think","authors":["byline_news_11890241"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_29121","news_29058","news_28801","news_29076","news_29363","news_29956","news_856","news_29955","news_28861","news_981"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11890324","label":"source_news_11890241"},"news_11872900":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11872900","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11872900","score":null,"sort":[1620613430000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfs-megan-rohrer-elected-as-1st-openly-transgender-bishop-in-u-s-lutheran-church","title":"SF's Megan Rohrer Elected as First Openly Transgender Bishop in US Lutheran Church","publishDate":1620613430,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco's Rev. Megan Rohrer has been elected as a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, becoming the first openly transgender person in the U.S. to do so in a major Christian denomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrer will serve as bishop of the Sacramento-based Sierra Pacific synod, which encompasses close to 200 congregations in Central and Northern California and northern Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am humbled and honored, and aware that this call is bigger than me,\" Rohrer said in a speech after the ballots were counted on Saturday. \"My hope is that your grandkids will call you, and your kids will call you, and your friends will call you, and ask you about your faith. And when they call, tell them how much you love Jesus and why Jesus' faith in you meant why you could have faith in me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishops are elected to six-year terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrer, 41, currently serves as a pastor at San Francisco's Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church. They are also well-known for their advocacy work with homeless and LGBTQ communities in the Bay Area and on a national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrer is a community chaplain coordinator for the San Francisco Police Department and helped organize an apology from SFPD for its historic transphobia — and its role in the Compton's Cafeteria Riot — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/sfpd-to-hold-lgtbq-reconciliation-and-recognition-night-at-glide-memorial/\">in a \"reconciliation\" session in the Tenderloin in 2019. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838870 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Megan Rohrer at a candlelit vigil in the Castro to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Megan Rohrer at a candlelight vigil in the Castro District to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though they grew up religious in South Dakota, it would be many years before Rohrer's church welcomed them to some degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After coming out as lesbian while attending a Lutheran college in Sioux Falls, Rohrer told KALW in 2014 they were harassed by their peers, who would treat their identity as something to be cured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people who were in my religion classes with me would sing hymns when I walked by, to try to get rid of my gay demons. And I would just sing harmony. I didn't know what to do,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a 2017 profile in Cosmopolitan, Rohrer spoke about how the abuse directed at their identity strengthened the resolve to pursue religious education \"to vocalize what I knew in my gut was OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After college, they began to identify as transgender, and later found acceptance at a progressive Lutheran seminary in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, at a time when the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America banned LGBTQ pastors from serving openly, Rohrer was ordained through an \"extraordinary candidacy process.\" Their ordainment was officially recognized by the church in 2010 after the ELCA changed its policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mmrohrer/status/1323099154659209216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Rohrer gained some celebrity for an appearance in the fifth season premiere of Queer Eye, in which they lent support to an openly gay bishop in Philadelphia who was on an emotional journey to self-acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrer told NPR: \"I am honored and humbled by the Synod's affirmation of my leadership skills. And, I am delighted that my election points to the unending love God has for Their fabulously diverse creation.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Rev. Megan Rohrer is a community chaplain coordinator at the San Francisco Police Department and is a fixture at San Francisco protests. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1620669194,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":529},"headData":{"title":"SF's Megan Rohrer Elected as First Openly Transgender Bishop in US Lutheran Church | KQED","description":"Rev. Megan Rohrer is a community chaplain coordinator at the San Francisco Police Department and is a fixture at San Francisco protests. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF's Megan Rohrer Elected as First Openly Transgender Bishop in US Lutheran Church","datePublished":"2021-05-10T02:23:50.000Z","dateModified":"2021-05-10T17:53:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11872900 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11872900","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/05/09/sfs-megan-rohrer-elected-as-1st-openly-transgender-bishop-in-u-s-lutheran-church/","disqusTitle":"SF's Megan Rohrer Elected as First Openly Transgender Bishop in US Lutheran Church","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"npr.org","nprByline":"Emma Bowman, KQED Staff","path":"/news/11872900/sfs-megan-rohrer-elected-as-1st-openly-transgender-bishop-in-u-s-lutheran-church","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco's Rev. Megan Rohrer has been elected as a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, becoming the first openly transgender person in the U.S. to do so in a major Christian denomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrer will serve as bishop of the Sacramento-based Sierra Pacific synod, which encompasses close to 200 congregations in Central and Northern California and northern Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am humbled and honored, and aware that this call is bigger than me,\" Rohrer said in a speech after the ballots were counted on Saturday. \"My hope is that your grandkids will call you, and your kids will call you, and your friends will call you, and ask you about your faith. And when they call, tell them how much you love Jesus and why Jesus' faith in you meant why you could have faith in me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishops are elected to six-year terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrer, 41, currently serves as a pastor at San Francisco's Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church. They are also well-known for their advocacy work with homeless and LGBTQ communities in the Bay Area and on a national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrer is a community chaplain coordinator for the San Francisco Police Department and helped organize an apology from SFPD for its historic transphobia — and its role in the Compton's Cafeteria Riot — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/sfpd-to-hold-lgtbq-reconciliation-and-recognition-night-at-glide-memorial/\">in a \"reconciliation\" session in the Tenderloin in 2019. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838870 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Megan Rohrer at a candlelit vigil in the Castro to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/016_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Megan Rohrer at a candlelight vigil in the Castro District to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though they grew up religious in South Dakota, it would be many years before Rohrer's church welcomed them to some degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After coming out as lesbian while attending a Lutheran college in Sioux Falls, Rohrer told KALW in 2014 they were harassed by their peers, who would treat their identity as something to be cured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people who were in my religion classes with me would sing hymns when I walked by, to try to get rid of my gay demons. And I would just sing harmony. I didn't know what to do,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a 2017 profile in Cosmopolitan, Rohrer spoke about how the abuse directed at their identity strengthened the resolve to pursue religious education \"to vocalize what I knew in my gut was OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After college, they began to identify as transgender, and later found acceptance at a progressive Lutheran seminary in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, at a time when the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America banned LGBTQ pastors from serving openly, Rohrer was ordained through an \"extraordinary candidacy process.\" Their ordainment was officially recognized by the church in 2010 after the ELCA changed its policy.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1323099154659209216"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Last year, Rohrer gained some celebrity for an appearance in the fifth season premiere of Queer Eye, in which they lent support to an openly gay bishop in Philadelphia who was on an emotional journey to self-acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrer told NPR: \"I am honored and humbled by the Synod's affirmation of my leadership skills. And, I am delighted that my election points to the unending love God has for Their fabulously diverse creation.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11872900/sfs-megan-rohrer-elected-as-1st-openly-transgender-bishop-in-u-s-lutheran-church","authors":["byline_news_11872900"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_856","news_29386"],"featImg":"news_11872902","label":"source_news_11872900"},"news_11869040":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11869040","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11869040","score":null,"sort":[1618261455000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-the-fifth-time-supreme-court-rules-against-california-health-restrictions-in-shadow-docket-hearing","title":"For the Fifth Time, Supreme Court Rules Against California Health Restrictions in 'Shadow Docket' Hearing","publishDate":1618261455,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>For the fifth time, the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with religious adherents and against California's COVID-19 restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a ruling released last Friday night, the court barred the state from enforcing a rule that for now limits both religious and non-religious gatherings in homes to no more than three households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this regulation restricted both secular and non-secular activities, faith leaders worried that it would unfairly target small-scale religious gatherings, like Bible study groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meeting together at home is more than studying the Bible, it's more like a therapeutic healing process,\" said Jp Samuel, pastor at The Spectrum Church in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spectrum was one of the churches that sued state and local authorities last November in a separate case to bring down Santa Clara County's ban on indoor worship services. The Supreme Court ended up siding with the churches in that lawsuit as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel applauds the Supreme Court's decision on this latest case and calls it \"something that's really been long overdue.\" He cites the increase in mental health issues during the pandemic as another reason why small religious gatherings are needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand the risks and enforce masks and social distancing,\" he said, \"but just let people get together and have a therapeutic reconnecting with one another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's unsigned order came on a 5-4 vote. Chief Justice John Roberts cast his lot with the dissenters, but failed to join their opinion. He noted simply that he would have left the lower court order intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rory Little, professor at UC Hastings College of the Law\"]'These cases were decided without full briefing, without oral argument and without the normal considerations we give to constitutional issues.'[/pullquote]A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that because the state treated both secular and non-secular groups alike when it came to home gatherings, the state restriction was constitutional. The appeals court panel declined to temporarily block its own order pending appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as home worshippers appealed to the Supreme Court, the state said it was in the process of modifying its rules as part of its ongoing process of easing restrictions by April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that satisfied the Supreme Court majority, including Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and former President Donald Trump's three appointees, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Rory Little, professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882923/should-the-supreme-court-expand-a-bipartisan-commission-tackles-the-question\">pointed out on KQED's Forum\u003c/a> that this ruling was not part of the court's main docket of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the court took it up as part of its \"shadow docket\" — cases processed rapidly because the court \u003ca href=\"https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/scotus-shadow-docket-draws-increasing-scrutiny\">considers them an \"emergency.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These cases were decided without full briefing, without oral argument and without the normal considerations we give to constitutional issues,\" Little said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expressed concern that the court is making late-night types of rulings without regular court proceedings that may also impact secular activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the ruling, non-religious gatherings with more than three households will also be permitted once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"religion, church, religious freedom\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, noted that California had applied the same restrictions to both secular and non-secular gatherings. Kagan pointed out that just because the state does allow larger gatherings at hair salons and other retail venues does not invalidate the home gathering limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law does not require that the state equally treat apples and watermelons,\" Kagan wrote, noting that people remain for longer periods in private homes, tend to gather more closely and that homes do not typically have air purification systems or other protections that have been adopted by most businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority \"once more commands California to ignore its own experts' scientific findings, thus impairing the state's effort to address a public health emergency,\" Kagan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rdillon\">Raquel Maria Dillon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Religious and non-religious gatherings in homes will be permitted in California once again thanks to a late-night Friday Supreme Court ruling.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1618266741,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":686},"headData":{"title":"For the Fifth Time, Supreme Court Rules Against California Health Restrictions in 'Shadow Docket' Hearing | KQED","description":"Religious and non-religious gatherings in homes will be permitted in California once again thanks to a late-night Friday Supreme Court ruling.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"For the Fifth Time, Supreme Court Rules Against California Health Restrictions in 'Shadow Docket' Hearing","datePublished":"2021-04-12T21:04:15.000Z","dateModified":"2021-04-12T22:32:21.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11869040 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11869040","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/04/12/for-the-fifth-time-supreme-court-rules-against-california-health-restrictions-in-shadow-docket-hearing/","disqusTitle":"For the Fifth Time, Supreme Court Rules Against California Health Restrictions in 'Shadow Docket' Hearing","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/2101289/nina-totenberg\">Nina Totenberg\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11869040/for-the-fifth-time-supreme-court-rules-against-california-health-restrictions-in-shadow-docket-hearing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the fifth time, the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with religious adherents and against California's COVID-19 restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a ruling released last Friday night, the court barred the state from enforcing a rule that for now limits both religious and non-religious gatherings in homes to no more than three households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this regulation restricted both secular and non-secular activities, faith leaders worried that it would unfairly target small-scale religious gatherings, like Bible study groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meeting together at home is more than studying the Bible, it's more like a therapeutic healing process,\" said Jp Samuel, pastor at The Spectrum Church in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spectrum was one of the churches that sued state and local authorities last November in a separate case to bring down Santa Clara County's ban on indoor worship services. The Supreme Court ended up siding with the churches in that lawsuit as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel applauds the Supreme Court's decision on this latest case and calls it \"something that's really been long overdue.\" He cites the increase in mental health issues during the pandemic as another reason why small religious gatherings are needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand the risks and enforce masks and social distancing,\" he said, \"but just let people get together and have a therapeutic reconnecting with one another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's unsigned order came on a 5-4 vote. Chief Justice John Roberts cast his lot with the dissenters, but failed to join their opinion. He noted simply that he would have left the lower court order intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'These cases were decided without full briefing, without oral argument and without the normal considerations we give to constitutional issues.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rory Little, professor at UC Hastings College of the Law","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that because the state treated both secular and non-secular groups alike when it came to home gatherings, the state restriction was constitutional. The appeals court panel declined to temporarily block its own order pending appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as home worshippers appealed to the Supreme Court, the state said it was in the process of modifying its rules as part of its ongoing process of easing restrictions by April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that satisfied the Supreme Court majority, including Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and former President Donald Trump's three appointees, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Rory Little, professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882923/should-the-supreme-court-expand-a-bipartisan-commission-tackles-the-question\">pointed out on KQED's Forum\u003c/a> that this ruling was not part of the court's main docket of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the court took it up as part of its \"shadow docket\" — cases processed rapidly because the court \u003ca href=\"https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/scotus-shadow-docket-draws-increasing-scrutiny\">considers them an \"emergency.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These cases were decided without full briefing, without oral argument and without the normal considerations we give to constitutional issues,\" Little said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expressed concern that the court is making late-night types of rulings without regular court proceedings that may also impact secular activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the ruling, non-religious gatherings with more than three households will also be permitted once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"religion, church, religious freedom","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, noted that California had applied the same restrictions to both secular and non-secular gatherings. Kagan pointed out that just because the state does allow larger gatherings at hair salons and other retail venues does not invalidate the home gathering limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law does not require that the state equally treat apples and watermelons,\" Kagan wrote, noting that people remain for longer periods in private homes, tend to gather more closely and that homes do not typically have air purification systems or other protections that have been adopted by most businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority \"once more commands California to ignore its own experts' scientific findings, thus impairing the state's effort to address a public health emergency,\" Kagan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rdillon\">Raquel Maria Dillon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11869040/for-the-fifth-time-supreme-court-rules-against-california-health-restrictions-in-shadow-docket-hearing","authors":["byline_news_11869040"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_22060","news_29345","news_856","news_29143","news_29346","news_932","news_1172"],"featImg":"news_11200300","label":"source_news_11869040"},"news_11859141":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11859141","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11859141","score":null,"sort":[1612718798000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"supreme-court-rules-against-calif-doubles-down-on-religious-rights-amid-pandemic","title":"Supreme Court Rules Against California, Doubles Down on Religious Rights Amid Pandemic","publishDate":1612718798,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A deeply divided Supreme Court doubled down on religious rights late Friday, ruling that California can no longer continue with a ban on indoor church services put in place to fight to the coronavirus pandemic. But the court said that the state, for now, can keep in place restrictions on singing and chanting inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two cases at the center of Friday's ruling marked a test of how far states can go to safeguard public health before running afoul of constitutional protections for the free exercise of religion. In response to suits brought by the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista and the Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, the court said California cannot bar in-person services altogether, but can limit attendance to 25% of capacity.[aside tag=\"religion, church\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the high court, by a 5-to-4 vote, upheld such bans in California and elsewhere. But with the arrival of new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in place of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the balance of power on the question switched, and this latest order is fresh evidence of the court's willingness to second-guess both epidemiologists and elected officials who are fighting a once-in-a-century pandemic when it comes to questions of religious liberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The churches argued that California violated their religious rights when the state moved last year to place limits on attendance at in-person worship services based on COVID-19 infection rates. In the hardest-hit areas of the state, in-person services were put on hold completely. So too was singing and chanting inside, given that the coronavirus is not only more transmissible in enclosed spaces, but that singing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/888945949/is-singing-together-safe-in-the-era-of-coronavirus-not-really-experts-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releases tiny droplets\u003c/a> that carry the virus through the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the conservative wing of the court prevailed decisively in the case Friday night, it was sharply split, with the conservative justices filing four separate opinions. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a136_bq7c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a concurring opinion\u003c/a>, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that federal courts owe \"significant deference\" to state officials when it comes to matters of public health, but he said such deference can only go so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The State has concluded, for example, that singing indoors poses a heightened risk of transmitting COVID–19. I see no basis in this record for overriding that aspect of the state public health framework,\" wrote Roberts. \"At the same time, the State's present determination — that the maximum number of adherents who can safely worship in the most cavernous cathedral is zero — appears to reflect not expertise or discretion, but instead insufficient appreciation or consideration of the interests at stake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief justice's opinion marked a middle ground of sorts among the court's conservatives. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas said they would have lifted California's restrictions in full. While acknowledging that the state has a \"compelling interest\" in reducing the spread of COVID-19, they said California had effectively given preferential treatment to \"lucrative industries\" such as the film industry, adding that the state had \"openly imposed more stringent regulations on religious institutions than on many businesses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Hollywood may host a studio audience or film a singing competition while not a single soul may enter California's churches, synagogues, and mosques, something has gone seriously awry,\" they wrote in an opinion that was joined by Justice Samuel Alito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in her first signed opinion since joining the court in October, focused on the state's restrictions on singing and chanting. In an opinion joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Barrett said that it was up to churches to demonstrate that they were entitled to relief from the singing ban, but that in this case, they had not. Still, she said, it remains unsettled as to whether the ban applies evenly across the board in California or if it favors certain sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course, if a chorister can sing in a Hollywood studio but not in her church, California's regulations cannot be viewed as neutral,\" Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan said they would have left California's restrictions in place. In a stinging dissent for the three, Kagan noted that none of the justices is a scientist, and she accused the majority of substituting its own judgment for the epidemiologists and elected officials who are \"desperately trying to slow the spread of a deadly disease.\" Kagan disputed the notion that the state is somehow treating religious institutions worse than secular entities. The only secular conduct the state treats better, she said, \"is the kind that its experts have found does not imperil\" the battle against the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot imagine that any of us [on the court] has delved into the scientific research on how COVID spreads, or studied the strategies for containing it,\" she said. \"So it is alarming that the court second guesses the judgments of expert officials and displaces their conclusions with its own. ... In the worst public health crisis in a century, this foray into armchair epidemiology cannot end well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's orders appeared to further cement the shift in the court's view on the issue following the death of Justice Ginsburg. Twice before Ginsburg's death in September, the court voted to allow similar restrictions on attendance at church services put in place by California and Nevada, with Chief Justice Roberts joining the court's liberal members in the majority. In November, with Barrett on the court, the justices ruled 5-4 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/26/939264852/supreme-court-says-new-york-cant-limit-attendance-in-houses-of-worship-due-to-co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to block New York\u003c/a> from enforcing strict limits on attendance limits on places of worship in coronavirus hot spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Supreme+Court+Rules+Against+Calif.%2C+Doubles+Down+On+Religious+Rights+Amid+Pandemic&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The court sided with two churches that said a ban on indoor church services violated their rights to free exercise of religion. But the justices let stand restrictions that cap attendance at 25%.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1612809289,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":955},"headData":{"title":"Supreme Court Rules Against California, Doubles Down on Religious Rights Amid Pandemic | KQED","description":"The court sided with two churches that said a ban on indoor church services violated their rights to free exercise of religion. 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But the court said that the state, for now, can keep in place restrictions on singing and chanting inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two cases at the center of Friday's ruling marked a test of how far states can go to safeguard public health before running afoul of constitutional protections for the free exercise of religion. In response to suits brought by the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista and the Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, the court said California cannot bar in-person services altogether, but can limit attendance to 25% of capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"religion, church","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the high court, by a 5-to-4 vote, upheld such bans in California and elsewhere. But with the arrival of new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in place of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the balance of power on the question switched, and this latest order is fresh evidence of the court's willingness to second-guess both epidemiologists and elected officials who are fighting a once-in-a-century pandemic when it comes to questions of religious liberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The churches argued that California violated their religious rights when the state moved last year to place limits on attendance at in-person worship services based on COVID-19 infection rates. In the hardest-hit areas of the state, in-person services were put on hold completely. So too was singing and chanting inside, given that the coronavirus is not only more transmissible in enclosed spaces, but that singing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/888945949/is-singing-together-safe-in-the-era-of-coronavirus-not-really-experts-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releases tiny droplets\u003c/a> that carry the virus through the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the conservative wing of the court prevailed decisively in the case Friday night, it was sharply split, with the conservative justices filing four separate opinions. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a136_bq7c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a concurring opinion\u003c/a>, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that federal courts owe \"significant deference\" to state officials when it comes to matters of public health, but he said such deference can only go so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The State has concluded, for example, that singing indoors poses a heightened risk of transmitting COVID–19. I see no basis in this record for overriding that aspect of the state public health framework,\" wrote Roberts. \"At the same time, the State's present determination — that the maximum number of adherents who can safely worship in the most cavernous cathedral is zero — appears to reflect not expertise or discretion, but instead insufficient appreciation or consideration of the interests at stake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief justice's opinion marked a middle ground of sorts among the court's conservatives. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas said they would have lifted California's restrictions in full. While acknowledging that the state has a \"compelling interest\" in reducing the spread of COVID-19, they said California had effectively given preferential treatment to \"lucrative industries\" such as the film industry, adding that the state had \"openly imposed more stringent regulations on religious institutions than on many businesses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Hollywood may host a studio audience or film a singing competition while not a single soul may enter California's churches, synagogues, and mosques, something has gone seriously awry,\" they wrote in an opinion that was joined by Justice Samuel Alito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in her first signed opinion since joining the court in October, focused on the state's restrictions on singing and chanting. In an opinion joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Barrett said that it was up to churches to demonstrate that they were entitled to relief from the singing ban, but that in this case, they had not. Still, she said, it remains unsettled as to whether the ban applies evenly across the board in California or if it favors certain sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course, if a chorister can sing in a Hollywood studio but not in her church, California's regulations cannot be viewed as neutral,\" Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan said they would have left California's restrictions in place. In a stinging dissent for the three, Kagan noted that none of the justices is a scientist, and she accused the majority of substituting its own judgment for the epidemiologists and elected officials who are \"desperately trying to slow the spread of a deadly disease.\" Kagan disputed the notion that the state is somehow treating religious institutions worse than secular entities. The only secular conduct the state treats better, she said, \"is the kind that its experts have found does not imperil\" the battle against the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot imagine that any of us [on the court] has delved into the scientific research on how COVID spreads, or studied the strategies for containing it,\" she said. \"So it is alarming that the court second guesses the judgments of expert officials and displaces their conclusions with its own. ... In the worst public health crisis in a century, this foray into armchair epidemiology cannot end well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's orders appeared to further cement the shift in the court's view on the issue following the death of Justice Ginsburg. Twice before Ginsburg's death in September, the court voted to allow similar restrictions on attendance at church services put in place by California and Nevada, with Chief Justice Roberts joining the court's liberal members in the majority. In November, with Barrett on the court, the justices ruled 5-4 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/26/939264852/supreme-court-says-new-york-cant-limit-attendance-in-houses-of-worship-due-to-co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to block New York\u003c/a> from enforcing strict limits on attendance limits on places of worship in coronavirus hot spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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