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Sep 20, 2014, 5:03:30 PM9/20/14
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Satanism is a religious activity. It violates the separation
between church and state. Sue OKC and impeach the lousy
officials who approved it.
Over 88,000 people have signed an online petition to stop a
satanic black mass scheduled for later this week in Oklahoma
City.
A petition started by the conservative activist website
CitizenGo.org calls on the Oklahoma City Civic Center to cancel
the Sunday event. The petition calls the event "offensive and
blasphemous,� and "designed as a mockery of the Catholic Mass.�
"We'll continue over the next week," CitizenGo's U.S. campaigns
director Gregory Mertz told ABC News.
Each signature automatically sends an e-mail to both the general
manager of the Civic Center and the city's mayor, he said.
"Hopefully, they will do the right thing and cancel the black
mass," he added.
Mertz says the website has protections in place to keep people
from signing the petition, which launched Sept. 1, more than
once.
Whatever the number of signatures, city officials have already
gone on record defending the organization's right to hold the
event. The Parks and Recreation Department, which rented the
space to the group for $420, cited First Amendment protections
in allowing the group to meet in a public facility.
Organizers of the black mass event say that as their detractors
charge, they do intend to mock the rituals of the Catholic
church in their services; it is these acts of mockery that make
up their services and serve as an integral part of their
religious practice.
Co-founder of Dakhma of Angra Mainyu Adam Daniels told ABC News
that the religious and educational organization decided to hold
the black mass in public but it will be a �tamer� version than
some traditional satanic ceremonies by, for example,
substituting vinegar for acts involving urine to comply with
state health laws.
"One of the dictates of the church is not only to educate the
members but to educate the public,� Daniels told ABC News
earlier this month, �and to debunk the Hollywood-projected image
of our beliefs.�
Daniels said today that he�s also aware of several other
petitions online to stop the black mass, and that he has signed
them all out of spite. He said he believes, which city officials
have confirmed, that there�s no stopping the event.
�I really don�t care if 80,000 people don�t like me,� he said.
�It�s a free country and they cannot like it all they want.�
The Oklahoma City Archdiocese filed a lawsuit against Daniels'
group after media reports that he was in possession of a
consecrated host, a wafer that some Catholics believe is
literally the body of Christ.
The petition argues that �while the Constitution protects
freedom of expression, it does not protect stealing property
from others and desecrating it.� The host in question has since
been handed over to the archdiocese and the legal action has
been stopped.
Daniels said all 88 tickets to the event at the city�s Civic
Center have been sold.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/thousands-sign-online-petition-stop-
black-mass/story?id=25536132
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between church and state. Sue OKC and impeach the lousy
officials who approved it.
Over 88,000 people have signed an online petition to stop a
satanic black mass scheduled for later this week in Oklahoma
City.
A petition started by the conservative activist website
CitizenGo.org calls on the Oklahoma City Civic Center to cancel
the Sunday event. The petition calls the event "offensive and
blasphemous,� and "designed as a mockery of the Catholic Mass.�
"We'll continue over the next week," CitizenGo's U.S. campaigns
director Gregory Mertz told ABC News.
Each signature automatically sends an e-mail to both the general
manager of the Civic Center and the city's mayor, he said.
"Hopefully, they will do the right thing and cancel the black
mass," he added.
Mertz says the website has protections in place to keep people
from signing the petition, which launched Sept. 1, more than
once.
Whatever the number of signatures, city officials have already
gone on record defending the organization's right to hold the
event. The Parks and Recreation Department, which rented the
space to the group for $420, cited First Amendment protections
in allowing the group to meet in a public facility.
Organizers of the black mass event say that as their detractors
charge, they do intend to mock the rituals of the Catholic
church in their services; it is these acts of mockery that make
up their services and serve as an integral part of their
religious practice.
Co-founder of Dakhma of Angra Mainyu Adam Daniels told ABC News
that the religious and educational organization decided to hold
the black mass in public but it will be a �tamer� version than
some traditional satanic ceremonies by, for example,
substituting vinegar for acts involving urine to comply with
state health laws.
"One of the dictates of the church is not only to educate the
members but to educate the public,� Daniels told ABC News
earlier this month, �and to debunk the Hollywood-projected image
of our beliefs.�
Daniels said today that he�s also aware of several other
petitions online to stop the black mass, and that he has signed
them all out of spite. He said he believes, which city officials
have confirmed, that there�s no stopping the event.
�I really don�t care if 80,000 people don�t like me,� he said.
�It�s a free country and they cannot like it all they want.�
The Oklahoma City Archdiocese filed a lawsuit against Daniels'
group after media reports that he was in possession of a
consecrated host, a wafer that some Catholics believe is
literally the body of Christ.
The petition argues that �while the Constitution protects
freedom of expression, it does not protect stealing property
from others and desecrating it.� The host in question has since
been handed over to the archdiocese and the legal action has
been stopped.
Daniels said all 88 tickets to the event at the city�s Civic
Center have been sold.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/thousands-sign-online-petition-stop-
black-mass/story?id=25536132
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