Target customers shocked after company features pride items by Satanist partner: Devil is 'hope' and 'love'

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Social media users were shocked to find out that one of Target's gay pride collection designers also sells gothic Satanic apparel on his website.

"Satanists don’t actually believe in Satan, he is merely used as a symbol of passion, pride, and liberty. He means to you what you need him to mean. So for me, Satan is hope, compassion, equality, and love. So, naturally, Satan respects pronouns. He loves all LGBT+ people. I went with a variation of Baphomet for this design, a deity who themself is a mixture of genders, beings, ideas, and existences. They reject binary stereotypes and expectations. Perfect," he said.

The polarizing partnership caused an uproar from conservatives and parents rights advocates on social media.hire a Satanist to design pieces for their recent ‘Pride’ clothing line?" Scarlett Johnson, a Wisconsin county chair for grassroots group Moms for Liberty, wrote on Twitter. She shared other social media posts from Abprallen encouraging transgender people to affiliate themselves with Satan. In one post, the designer claimed Satan loved and respected LGBTQ people, so they should"hang with Satan instead."The Abprallen designer responded to the backlash by mocking"transphobes."

"These have already got the transphobes infuriated with me and I feel like quite the celebrity to think that they believe this is all some big conspiracy and I have any power to brainwash anyone when I’m just some guy drawing pictures!" the artist wrote. Abprallen is currently selling two products on Target's website, a messenger bag that says"Too queer for here" and a sweatshirt that says"Cure transphobia." Neither product features Satanic imagery. However, Carnell suggested more products with Target would drop later in

 

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