The West Florida chapter of The Satanic Temple adopted a park in Pensacola, Florida, under the Keep Pensacola Beautiful program. The chapter has volunteered to pick up trash in the area for two years as part of TST's overall commitment to civic-minded activism.

However, in a bureaucratic error, the program belatedly realized the park in question wasn't actually available for adoption. So, despite having already conducted a cleanup there, the chapter will continue its volunteerism at a different park once that is selected.

On July 8, the day the city’s mistake came to light, a vandal spray-painted over the sign declaring the park under The Satanic Temple-West Florida's care as well as directly onto a park walkway and fence. The graffiti read "Jesus" across the walkway and "Jesus God will crush your hidden temple, county owes answers" on the fence. The spray paint obscured The Satanic Temple-West Florida name on the sign.

"I could see someone's motivations for vandalizing our sign—the part of the sign that says 'The Satanic Temple'—because people are just afraid of the word 'Satan'," West Florida chapter head Jes Smith told The Pensacola News Journal. "But I do not understand the motivation to destroy the public property –- the part of the park that belongs to all of us, the part that we share."

Fortunately, the vandal was not representative of the broader community and public response to the incident has been largely supportive of TST. Many Christians joined other commenters in denouncing the crime on social media, and some volunteers not affiliated with TST even pitched in or offered to help clean up the graffiti.

After a long political and legal battle, a member of The Satanic Temple has again been allowed to deliver an invocation at a government meeting in Soldotna, Alaska.

On June 18, TST member Iris Fontana presented the following invocation before the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly:

Let us be present in this moment, clear our minds, and be free of outdated propaganda and regulations that were created by historical people who were afraid of the unknown. Let us embrace the impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil so that we may let go of comforting delusions and see the truth in the world. Let us demand that humans be judged for their actions, not their loyalty to useless social norms, labels, and categories. Let us stand firm against all authority that tries to threaten the unalienable rights of all humans. Let us cast aside our differences to use reason, logic, science, and compassion to create solutions for the greater good of our community. It is done. Hail Satan. Thank you.

Before Fontana spoke, some assembly members and onlookers left the room in objection. Fontana's invocation lasted 48 seconds, less time than it took for the objectors to exit and re-enter the chamber to continue the meeting.

Meanwhile, a number of protesters stood outside the building holding signs bearing phrases such as "God will not be mocked" and "invoke the name of Jesus". The protest was largely populated by The American Society for The Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, a conservative Catholic organization under the umbrella group The Foundation for A Christian Civilization. According to Radio Kenai, protesters from seven states flew in to join the Alaska demonstration.

This is not the first-time religious pluralism has sparked controversy at the assembly. In 2016, the borough considered doing away with religious invocations but instead opted to open invocation opportunities to the general public. Fontana secured a slot and delivered her first Satanic invocation amid similar protests.

In response, the assembly voted to restrict invocation opportunities only to religions it deemed sufficiently established in the borough. Fontana and two other members of the public—an unaffiliated atheist and a Jewish woman—were subsequently refused, and The American Civil Liberties Union sued on their behalf. In late 2018, the suit prevailed when the Alaska Superior Court ruled the restrictive policy unconstitutional.

Fontana was able to give her second invocation on June 18 after the policy was re-opened to the public.

The assembly is again considering abolishing invocations altogether.