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appleannie1

(5,204 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 11:50 AM Jul 2013

Satanists hold ritual to turn homophobic church(Westboro) founder’s mother gay ‘in the afterlife’

A Satanist group, the Satanic Temple, has held a ‘Pink Mass’ at the grave of Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps’ mother, and have claimed that she “is now gay, in the afterlife”.

The Satanic Temple posted photographs online of the reading of an incarnation, and same-sex couples “expressing their love”, by kissing over the grave of Fred Phelps Jr’s mother Catherine Johnston.

On the website westboro-baptist.com, owned by the Satanic Temple and not affiliated with the church of the same name, are images of the ceremony, and a description of proceedings.

It reads: “Catherine Idalette Johnston, wife of Fred W Phelps, Sr, Mother to Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, Jr, was honored in a ceremonial ‘Pink Mass’, performed by The Satanic Temple, at her gravesite. The Pink Mass is a Satanic ritual performed at the grave site of a deceased person, which changes the sexual orientation of that person in the afterlife.”

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/07/18/satanists-hold-ritual-to-turn-homophobic-church-founders-mother-gay-in-the-afterlife/

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Satanists hold ritual to turn homophobic church(Westboro) founder’s mother gay ‘in the afterlife’ (Original Post) appleannie1 Jul 2013 OP
Taking a lesson from the Mormons!! Manifestor_of_Light Jul 2013 #1
I find it poetic justice for ole Freddy appleannie1 Jul 2013 #2
I'd like to take the high road on this issue Tyrs WolfDaemon Jul 2013 #3
Maybe Fred's "church" is a reaction formation due to his poor closeted mother siligut Jul 2013 #4
Oh, soooooo good! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2013 #5
LOL!!! limpyhobbler Jul 2013 #6
 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
1. Taking a lesson from the Mormons!!
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 12:07 PM
Jul 2013

The Mormons baptize dead people, including Anne Frank, Albert Einstein, and others. Some people call it "dead-dunking".


Tyrs WolfDaemon

(2,289 posts)
3. I'd like to take the high road on this issue
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 02:11 PM
Jul 2013

and say that such things shouldn't be done by anyone (that includes all the funeral protests by Westboro).

But then I recall the old saying 'May you feast for one night in Valhalla before the Christian God knows you're dead' making me think that Old Mrs. Johnston may like the change in scenery.





siligut

(12,272 posts)
4. Maybe Fred's "church" is a reaction formation due to his poor closeted mother
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 02:35 PM
Jul 2013

And these Satanists are just finally setting her free. These rituals, like funerals, are for the living, I hope it bites Fred in the ass and cures him of his stupidity and hatred. Westboro church is probably more evil than this Satanic church could ever be.

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