Satan's Little Helper

February 2025

THE SATANIC TEMPLE MADE ITS NAME ANTAGONIZING THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT. THEN IT OPENED AN ABORTION CLINIC NAMED FOR SAMUEL ALITO’S MOM, AND THINGS GOT UGLY.

ONE MORNING IN late October, Lucien Greaves, the spokesperson for the Satanic Temple, stood with his guard dog, Luci, outside the organization’s headquarters, a Victorian mansion in Salem, Massachusetts. Luci, a canine mass of muscle with such enormous ears that Greaves...