The chief of the “Satanic Grotto” group has been arrested for punching a younger man who disrupted the group’s “black mass” ritual on the Kansas State Capitol on Friday.
At the least three different members of the Satanic group had been additionally arrested.
Satanic Grotto chief Michael Stewart and his group initially held an illustration on the Capitol steps, the place they desecrated unconsecrated communion wafers in entrance of lots of of Christian counter-protesters.
The scenario escalated when Stewart defied a allow restriction issued by Governor Laura Kelly that barred the group from performing a ritual contained in the constructing.
Stewart entered the rotunda, started reciting from a script, and was interrupted by Marcus Schroeder, a 21-year-old Christian counter-protester who tried to grab the paper from his fingers. Stewart responded by placing Schroeder within the face, and Capitol Police intervened to sort out the Satanist to the bottom.
A video of the altercation contained in the Capitol was offered to Life Site News.
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In the course of the Black Mass ritual, the Satanists meant to desecrate a consecrated Eucharistic host, a sacred factor in Catholicism. It’s unclear if they may get that far earlier than the arrest was made.
Stewart was arrested for disorderly conduct and illegal meeting, and his bond was set at $1,000. Schroeder, regardless of being punched, was additionally arrested for disorderly conduct and has an identical $1,000 bond.
Two different members of the Satanic Grotto, Jocelyn Frazee, 32, and Sean Anderson, 50, had been arrested for illegal meeting after trying to proceed the ritual following Stewart’s arrest.
