Weird Satanists: Miss. gravesite ritual turns Westboro Baptist founder's mom gay

[The Helper]

Westboro Baptist Church has made a name for itself since the early 1990s with bombastic rhetoric against the gay community, controversial protests of funerals, and more recently, an appearance at Ole Miss for the idolization of The Blind Side's Michael Oher.

The New York-based Satanic Temple, an organization with a goal to support "freedom and the pursuit of happiness for all people," took its own stance against the Westboro Baptist Church this weekend by coming to Mississippi.

The temple performed a "Pink Mass" ceremony Sunday at the Meridian grave of WBC's founder Fred Phelps Jr.'s mother Catherine Johnston to turn her "gay forever."

"We believe that Fred Phelps is obligated to believe that his mother is now gay in the afterlife," Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves said in a release. "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."

Satanists Turned the Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church’s Dead Mom Gay

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 dead mother, which means that now her spirit is now totally into other...

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[Accname]

This will end badly. One side acting arrogant versus the other side doing the same. In the end, both will be hurt and then we all have to go home and can no longer play in the sandpit.

 

[FireCat]

Such a disgraceful act.

 

[KMilz]

Yeah, hate doesn't fix hate.

 

[mushroom911]

I feel so wrong for laughing at this, but this is just so silly!

 

[camelCase]

Genius. Like pork bullets.