Roselle Stevenson for Craig Christensen

https://1830goel.substack.com/p/roselle-stevenson-for-craig-christensen

Here at IRA, we’re staunch supporters of participatory democracy and religious freedom. That’s why we’re contributing this campaign video to Craig Christensen, candidate for District One City Council in Provo, Utah. Craig and his former sister in law Roselle Stevenson are alleged members of the fringe religious group within the LDS known as the Church of Satan, and they’re facing a rough patch. It turns out that law enforcement opposes child rape and administering peyote to children, even if it’s for religious purposes. Invoking the Wisdom of Parents instead of the Fifth Amendment when asked about the Church of Satan’s activities is not a solid legal strategy for prospective defendants.

As such, the LDS Church of Satan is facing annihilation as its gatekeepers tumble. First, Utah County Attorney David Leavitt lost his reelection bid, and without that office, he couldn’t run interference for the CS to stop prosecutions of its members. Second, the investigation into ritual abuse allegations that grew out of a Homeland Security trafficking investigation which resurrected the 2012 to 2014 allegations against David Hamblin and his CS accomplices ended up in the hands of special prosecutor Ryan Peters from Juab County, which meant that David Leavitt couldn’t spend his final months in office sabotaging the investigation and prosecution of David Lee Hamblin. Third, David Leavitt fled the United States to go remodel a dilapidated and crumbling castle in Scotland with his wife Chelom. Finally, Roselle was arrested today by the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.

As the competent generation of the Church of Satan has died off, what remains are the rejects and castaways like David Hamblin, the peyote addled self-styled medicine man wannabe who holds “healing circles” throughout Utah County. Down in Sanpete County, there’s Joe Bennion, running his pottery business and holding sweat lodge ceremonies. David Hamblin’s brother in law Timothy Nathan Tuttle is now dead, after being convicted of molesting his adopted daughter, and his wife Krii Tuttle has now renamed herself Maarah Grayye. Krii decided on the name after consulting with a numerologist in Israel.

Brian Kershisnik continues to draw and paint crude two dimensional figures and sell them to art collectors who want to support a Mormon artist. His marriage with Suzanne Kershisnik ended in divorce, and he has since remarried. His new wife Faith is a marriage and family therapist who owns Evolve Therapy in Provo, Utah. She received her Master’s degree from BYU, where she would have likely crossed paths with BYU professor Chelom Eastwood Leavitt, herself a marriage and family therapist. Brian Kershisnik’s ex-wife Suzanne runs a children’s theater troupe out of her home in Provo.

And so the sands of time pour forth in the hourglass that measures the progression in the lives of the middle aged and useless alumni of the LDS Church of Satan, whose wild Nineties sex cult has gradually faded into lore. Their children are all grown up now, and most have left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for astrology, tarot, Wiccan traditions, and other mystical mumbo-jumbo alternatives. The crimes of the LDS Church of Satan don’t have statues of limitations in many cases, which is why it is a very real possibility that these individuals will have to wrestle with the answer to one existential question: who’s next?