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A leader of a satanist group and three others were arrested on Friday after a fight broke out inside the Kansas Statehouse After the leader supposedly tried to hold a black mass in the roundabout.
Michael Stewart, head of the satanic cave of the Kansas City area, was arrested after the video showed a counterprothester who tried to take his script.
Kansas road patrol officers approached him and handcuffed him while shouting: “Salve, Satan!” He was later released with a $ 1,000 bonus for disorderly conduct and illegal assembly.
Satanic Group challenges Kansas officials, plans ‘black mass’ in the state of the state
Stewart’s non -profit group describes itself as an “independent and non -denominational satanic church.” According to Stewart, the event initially caught little attention until accusations arose that he stole consecrated bread from a local Catholic Church for use in the black mass.
Michael Stewart, president of the satanic grotto of the Kansas City area, talks to journalists while the group recovers outside the Kansas state house on Friday in Topeka. (Photo AP/John Hanna)
Stewart and about 30 of the members of his group gathered outside the state house to protest what they called favoritism towards Christians. Hundreds of Christian counterprotestors sang hymns and urged them “Accept Jesus“
The governor of Kansas, Laura Kelly, temporarily prohibited protests within the day after the Catholic groups pressed her to stop the black mass. Catholic leaders described the event as a despicable act of anti -Catholic intolerance. “Kelly issued his order on March 12, which asked Stewart and his followers.
“There are more constructive ways of protesting and expressing disagreements without insulting or denigrating sacred religious symbols“Kelly said in an announcement about the event.
Pastor Jeremiah Hicks of the Church Cure in Kansas City, Kansas, warned that not allowing the event.
“The Bible says that Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy, so when we dedicate a state to Satan, we dedicate it to death,” he said.
Catholics were among the counterprotestor Christians in a rally of the satanic cave outside the Kansas state house, on Friday, in Topeka. (Photo AP/John Hanna)
The followers of the satanic cave argued that the event was about freedom of expression. Stewart’s wife, Maenad Bee, told reporters: “He is only exercising his rights to the first amendment.”
Two other Stewart followers, Jocelyn Frazee, 32, and Sean Anderson, 50, were also arrested by illegal assembly. Frazee had no bond establishment, and Anderson’s bond information was not available at the time of publication.
Marcus Schroeder, 21, a Christian counterprotester who tried to take Stewart’s script, was also arrested for disorderly behavior. His bonus was set at $ 1,000.
Christians counterproduct in a rally from Kansas’s state house in Topeka. (Photo AP/John Hanna)
Karla Delgado, who attended her three young children, admitted that she tried to stop Stewart’s satanic ceremony.
“When we saw anyone stop it, we tried to do it,” he said. In chaos, her 4 -year -old daughter was shot down.
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Stewart said his group scheduled the event thinking that legislators would be in session. He hinted that they can return.
“Maybe ‘Non baptisms’, right here in the Capitol,” he said.
The satanic grotto did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
