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'Pink Mass' Has Made Westboro Baptist Church Founder's Mom Gay In Afterlife http://huff.to/1dHcdgV
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'Pink Mass' Has Made Westboro Baptist Church Founder's Mom Gay In Afterlife, Satanists Claim


By now, everyone's just about had it with the Westboro Baptist Church, a group whose members use national tragedies as opportunities to forward anti-gay hate speech. Ironically, their planned protests often bring communities together in opposition to their message. Now, an unlikely group has mounted a gay offensive against the WBC.

On Sunday, July 14, the Satanic Temple, a New York-based organization that seeks to foster "benevolence and empathy among all people" through Satan, performed a ritual called a "pink mass" at the Mississippi gravesite of Catherine Idalette Johnston, mother of WBC founder Fred Phelps Jr.

The aim? To "turn" the WBC founder's mom gay for all eternity.

"Upon completion of the pink mass ceremony, Catherine Johnston is now gay in the afterlife," notes the Satanic Temple website, which has the cheeky URL http://www.westboro-baptist.com. "Fred Phelps is obligated to believe that his mother is now gay ... [and] 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."

The latter assertion appears to be a play on the WBC's own stance that their beliefs are totally infallible.

The Pink Mass was performed twice -- once with two gay men, and once with two lesbians -- in an affirmation of the Satanist Temple's belief in "freedom and the pursuit of happiness for all people." The temple is now encouraging same-sex couples to visit the grave and perform their own pink masses.

According to the Satanist Temple website, temple spokesman Lucien Greaves officiated the ceremonies while wearing horned headgear, and then proceeded to put his penis on Johnston's grave (NSFW, obviously).

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I have mixed emotions about this ~ please don't misunderstand ~ I believe anyone associated with WBC is evil personified and scum of the earth ~ when I first read this, I laughed ~ I know it feels good at the moment, but what do we become if/when we "retaliate"? ~

Sooz

I don't think of it as retaliation, but more like example. They are, by their sheer nutty "mass", holding a mirror up to the people of WBC.

A great parody of Westboro.

I think this is hilarious. I do understand what you are saying, sooz, but this was not done at her funeral in front of the family or anything so I don't see them as the same.

IMO, this was just a stupid thing to do. While it was funny, IMO, it was still stupid.