Timothy "Chaz" Stevens (born August 31, 1964) is an American political activist, artist, software developer, and entrepreneur from Florida.

[9] Stevens graduated Deerfield Beach High School in 1982, and earned a degree in applied mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology, after which he worked as a computer programmer.

[14][15] A month later the Housing Authority adopted, then rescinded, a resolution banning obscene, profane, or vulgar public records requests, which was considered to be targeted directly at him.

[21] In 2013, a city commissioner of Dania Beach, Florida, cited Stevens's posting of a picture of her wearing glasses with a penis nose as the reason for her retirement.

[22] In 2016, based on complaints by Stevens, the state ethics commission found probable cause that the then-mayor of Deerfield Beach had misused her office.

[24] For five years before 2012, Stevens had unsuccessfully petitioned his home town of Deerfield Beach to take down the religious displays, a Hanukkah menorah and Christian nativity scene, that were put up annually next to a firehouse on the Hillsboro Boulevard.

So, in December 2012, with the city's permission, Stevens instead installed a 8-foot (2.4 m) aluminum Festivus pole, made out of 23 beer cans, 6 feet (1.8 m) from the Baby Jesus.

[28] When the following year, Deerfield Beach passed a motion to ban all religious symbols on city property in response to the Festivus pole, Stevens had achieved his goal.

[32] Stevens successfully petitioned to put up a 6-foot (1.8 m) Festivus pole, made of PVC and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans next to the nativity scene.

[26]) Stevens made the gesture because he believes in the separation of church and state and disagreed with all religious expression on government property.

[36] After the pole was removed in January, Stevens put it up for auction on eBay, and sold it for $455, which he promised to donate to the Women in Distress Florida domestic violence center.

[2] In December 2014, Stevens again put up a Festivus pole at the Florida State Capitol, this time accompanied by one at the city of Delray Beach.

[55][56] These poles were only 5 feet (1.5 m) tall ("a shout-out to Donald's tiny hands", said Stevens),[55] wrapped with an upside-down U.S. flag, signifying distress, and topped with a Make America Great Again cap, held on by a giant safety pin, a symbol of support for minorities.

[59] In 2014, after the United States Supreme Court decided Town of Greece v. Galloway by ruling that a town could be permitted to start its meetings with a prayer as long as it did not discriminate against minority faiths, Stevens requested that his home city, Deerfield Beach, allow him to say a Satanist prayer at the beginning of a council meeting.

[66] When Stevens threatened a lawsuit, Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based evangelical Christian religious litigation organization, said they would defend Lake County in court.

[67][68] Pompano Beach changed its religious invocation requirements to an IRS non-profit status local congregation determined by research on the Internet, in the city Yellow Pages, or by the Chamber of Commerce.

[69] In response, Stevens founded the First Pompano Beach Church of Satan, which shared a mailing address with a local parcel service, and offered salvation, cold beer, and an occasional stripper.

[72] In early 2016, Stevens, without specific permission, put up an inverted cross featuring an outline of Jesus and a butt plug in front of Pompano Beach city hall.

[79] This was ESAD International, or ESADoggy, a business providing ESA letters to declare a pet as an emotional support animal, especially to allow them to accompany passengers on airplanes.

[82][83] This was placed as a religious display from Stevens's latest organization, "Mount Jab, Holy Church of the Vaccinated", of which he declared himself archbishop.

[84] Other political artistic displays Stevens proposed to display in the capitol in 2022, including of governor Ron DeSantis on the cover of Playboy magazine and sex toys painted with the faces of DeSantis, U.S. representative Matt Gaetz, and former president Donald Trump, were rejected, even after Stevens tried to downgrade them to a blank sign.

[85][11] In January 2022, Stevens minted a non-fungible token (NFT) bearing an illustration of Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami and an advocate of cryptocurrency, depicted with a penis for a nose.

[92] In August 2022 in response to Texas Senate Bill 797, which requires Texas schools to display donated posters of the national motto "In God We Trust", Stevens launched a GoFundMe campaign to donate posters of the national motto written in Arabic, intending to invoke some Christians' discomfort with Islam.

[96] They were written in Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Spanish, and other languages including Klingon, or in English but with rainbow-colored backgrounds in support of LGBTQ+ students.