You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Series inquiry's Only. This is episode 119.

I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right, today I have an interview

with Jex Blackmore.

She is the spokesman for the Satanic Temple. Their work has come up a lot on this

podcast and on opening arguments because they use creative methods to point out

the absurdities of religious laws at times and other things.

Jex is going to tell us all about it.

Now this is actually an unplanned two-parter.

It was total coincidence, but I booked Jex and then opening arguments booked Lucian Grieves, who is one of the founders of the

satanic temple. He will be on tomorrow's episode of opening arguments and in that episode we're going to get more into the legal battles

and talk more law. Today we reference it a bit but we're more behind the scenes of Jex's

experience, some of the basics of the satanic temple, what it's about, what Satanists are about.

Jex blogged her abortion. That's a really interesting thing we're going to talk about. So it's a satanic week and

here's part one. It's really good. Jex Blackmore,

Blackmore, thank you for joining me on the show.

It's my pleasure.

So I'm really excited to talk to you because on this show and actually on other shows I've referred to the

satanic temple before because you guys do some really

biting work that I think is just so brilliant.

So I'm really happy to have you here.

And but I also, you know, I, I'm guessing a lot of the listeners don't know much about the sort of the

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