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The Satanic Temple, a burgeoning community of worship devoted to the Dark Lord, has performed a Pink Mass over the grave of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps Jr.s mother. The Pink Mass is a Satanic ritual performed after death that turns the deceased's straight spirit into a homo oneits not unlike the Mormon practice of baptizing the dead, only much gayer.
On Sunday the Satanic Temple, which first came into the national spotlight last January when the organization announced its support for Florida Governor Rick Scott, went to the Phelps family graveyard in Mississippi to perform the ritual. (Two Pink Masses were performed, one with a female couple and another with men.) I contacted Lucien Greaves, the Temples spokesperson and officiator of the ceremony, to find out what exactly the Pink Mass entials. While he didn't get into specifics, he told told me via email that "there were, in fact, scriptures recited, candles lit, and a ceremonial proceeding that we may eventually post the details of at our website, westboro-baptist.com. That is, if the Pink Mass generates sufficient interest to the point that other responsible parties, respectful of the graveyard, wish to perform their own."
The idea for the mass came about in April, when the WBC announced their intention to protest the funerals of the Boston Bombing victims. The church never showed up, but later issued a statement saying they were there in spirit. As is always the case when WBC does or says anything, both the initial plans and the subsequent statement pissed off everyone in the world, including Satanists. And so, according to a press release, the Satanic Temple decided that a ceremony celebrating same-sex couples "at the gravesite of Fred Phelps mother was an appropriate way to meet the Westboro Baptists, in spirit, but this time on our terms.
Now the spirit of Catherine Idalette Johnston is officially into other chicks, meaning her gravesite is a viable target for one of her sons God hates fags protests. Lucien told me, "We believe that Fred Phelps is obligated to believe that his mother is now gay in the afterlife. Further, if beliefs are inviolable rights, nobody has the right to challenge our right to believe that Fred Phelps believes that his mother is now gay."
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The Blue Flower
(5,446 posts)dogknob
(2,431 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)And just as nutty as Jesus-ism.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)sigmasix
(794 posts)Gotta dig the satanists. They believe that Fred believes she is homosexual in the afterlife! This is just the sort of thing to enrage fundamentalist idiots that maintain a supernatural explanation for the world. I get the feeling that this is just the begining of an extended exploration into West Boro Baptist' homophobic hatred and desecration of Christ's name. I'd like to see the same treatment for other fundamentalist hate-mongers.
Behind the Aegis
(53,989 posts)ETA: Maybe they should do this over some LDS graves and see how the Mormon Church responds to their own tactics.
ETA (again):
All Hail our half-inflated Dark Lord!
(that image is already on DU somewhere! )
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)Hail Satan
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Now I support them because they are awesome!