The Satanic Temple has rejected a Supreme Court ruling that requires the burial or cremation of fetal remains. Citing a violation of its religious freedom, the organization insists that is should be exempt from the law. 

On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court upheld Indiana law (HEA 1337), which ensures that unborn babies are granted a respectful burial, instead of being disposed of on landfill sites as is common practice for many abortion clinics.

“The fetal disposition provision expands on long-established legal and cultural traditions of recognizing the dignity and humanity of the fetus,” the state argued in its case before the highest court of the land.

The Satanic Temple, however, believes it should be granted immunity from the restrictions.

“Members of The Satanic Temple believe that non-viable fetal tissue is part of the woman who carries it, and as such, state impositions of ceremonial requirements dictating its disposal, barring any plausible medical or sanitary concerns, is a violation of TST’s Free Exercise allowing Satanists to contextualize the termination of a pregnancy on their own terms, with deference to their own religious beliefs,” the organization wrote in a statement, as reported by the Arkansas Times.

Referring to its members as Satanists, TST said it “affirms that this rule violates their…

The Supreme Court decided not to hear a case involving a challenge to a Pennsylvania School’s District’s policy of allowing students to use the restroom which matches their gender identity rather than their biological sex. Their refusal to hear the case upholds to lower court rulings which favored the school district.

The case started in 2016 when the Boyerton Area School District allowed students who identified as transgender to use the bathroom of their choice. The Alliance Defending Freedom, who represented the students filing suit against the school district, claims that some male students did not know about the policy changed until “they were undressing in their locker room and discovered that a female student was changing clothes with them. They further allege that the students went to school officials “who told them they should just ‘tolerate it’ and make it as natural as possible.’”

A female student did not know about the policy change until she saw a boy in the girls’ restroom. She ran out of the restroom, but according to the ADF, “school officials refused to listen to her privacy concerns either.”

Scholars believed there were two issues at play in the case. First, “Given students’ constitutionally protected privacy interest in their partially clothed bodies, whether a public school has a compelling interest in…