
Satanic Temple Denies it Intends to Desecrate the Eucharist During Planned ‘Black Mass’
The group said its statement was made in direct response to Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer of Atlanta.
The group said its statement was made in direct response to Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer of Atlanta.
Archbishop Hartmayer reiterated that Catholics should respond to 'this attack to our faith through prayer, penance, and prayers of reparation.'
In her ruling this week, District Court Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson tossed out the lawsuit, claiming that the Satanic Temple had failed to show it had any standing to bring it in the first place.
The group, which denies the existence of Satan but associates itself with satanic imagery, says the online facility will provide medication abortion pills by mail.
‘The new secular religion of our own time takes on this practice in an almost sacramental way: indeed, abortion has become, for them, their blessed sacrament, what they hold most sacred, the doctrine and practice upon which their whole belief system is built.’
COMMENTARY: The group’s latest assertion of a religious freedom claim pointing to an ‘abortion ritual’ is nothing more than a grotesque parodying of religious rituals and symbols.
The attorney and mom says that the Satanic Temple “represents our best, last defense” so that her own daughters will one day have the choice whether to abort her grandchildren.
The Satanic Temple of Detroit plans to unveil its ‘Baphomet’ statue on July 25 at an undisclosed location in the city.
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