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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
More Satanic protests planned for Kansas Statehouse
TOPEKA (KSNT) – A Satanic organization is planning additional protests at the Kansas Statehouse after an earlier 'Black Mass' ceremony turned violent and ended in several arrests. Michael Stewart, president of the Satanic Grotto, said his organization has plans to hold more protests in Topeka in the coming days. Stewart and other participants were arrested during a controversial Black Mass ceremony inside the Kansas Statehouse in March this year, but that isn't deterring Stewart from returning to the home of the state's Legislature. Stewart told Rebekah Chung with 27 News' Capitol Bureau that he is planning to hold other events at the Statehouse soon. One of these includes a 'Witching Hour Protest.' 'Yes, that's what we're working on,' Steward said. 'We're gonna send in a permit here pretty soon for what I like to call the Witching Hour Protest. We'll be showing up here at midnight and we will be inviting not just Satanists but pagans, wiccans.' Former Kickapoo leader pleads guilty to child pornography crime Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay told 27 News earlier this week his office has yet to make a decision on whether or not charges will be filed in connection to the Black Mass event on March 28. Four people, including Stewart, were arrested as Stewart tried to hold the ceremony inside the Statehouse building. The Black Mass sparked controversy in the days leading up to it, especially among Catholic and Christian organizations. Members of the Kansas Legislature and Governor Laura Kelly issued statements as the Black Mass approached with many legislators condemning it. 'The goal behind this new one [Witching Hour Protest] I think is to start getting solidarity between these fringe religions and groups here in Kansas that might feel isolated and feel like they don't have any power on their own,' Stewart said. What new Kansas laws go into effect on July 1, 2025? For more Capitol Bureau news, click here. Keep up with the latest breaking news in northeast Kansas by downloading our mobile app and by signing up for our news email alerts. Sign up for our Storm Track Weather app by clicking here. Follow Matthew Self on X (Twitter): Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Metro
26-05-2025
- General
- Metro
Woman claims ghost she's spoken to for 12 years says the world will end tomorrow
Sorry to break it to you, but a woman who has spoken to a spirit for the last 12 years says it has predicted the world will end tomorrow. The phantom – who goes by the name Seven (or just '7') – appeared on a Ouija board being used by a woman only known as Cassie0peia7. For simplicity, we're just going to call her Cassie. Sharing her revelations on TikTok – insisting it's not a publicity stunt – she said 7 reckons we're all going to die as a result of a nuclear blast or space explosion tomorrow. (Or today, if you're reading this on May 27, 2025, and anyone reading after that date can stop reading at this point). Cassie and her husband, also unnamed, claim they first made contact with the spirit on July 5, 2013, when they whipped out the Ouija board because they were bored. She is convinced that 7's prophecies will come to pass because 7 once talked about a plague slowing down the human path to destruction. Less than seven years later, Covid struck. 7 would communicate in English, spell words in ancient languages and used binary code. It also communicated backwards. A couple of days later, they asked what message 7 would send to the world. The reply? 'That all must stop or Earth will die.' When the couple drilled down for more information and asked exactly what must stop in order to prevent the apocalypse, 7 responded: 'Stupid.' Offering some proof of its claims, the spirit said it was the third time it had made contact. On July 25 that year, 7 told them the 'first contact failed 24,825 ago'. That was the day the Hiroshima bomb was dropped. The second time 7 got in touch was successful, tracing back to October 27, 1962, when nuclear war was narrowly avoided in the Cuban Missile Crisis. (I hope you're keeping up with the timeline). Eerily, 7 said there would be a failed contact 29,149 days after Hiroshima, bringing us to May 27. Out of curiosity, Cassie and Mr 0peia7 asked who was going to die. 7 replied: 'All. Save 7'. Cassie said: 'I am a normal person, my husband is a normal person. We have jobs. We are not Satanists.' She has now released a 51-page transcript of 31 conversations the couple have had with 7, and has handily broken them down on multiple TikToks. But it's definitely not a PR stunt. Among the wisdom imparted by the phantom are ditties such as: 'To struggle is to grow, to grow is to learn, to learn is to find victory'. More Trending The 0peia7s also have a new theory about Cleopatra after their pet ghost told them the Egyptian queen 'died by a knife' rather than a fatal bite by a snake. They last spoke to 7 on May 8, coincidentally (and conveniently) just after their first video about their supernatural activities went viral. In that chat, they asked a series of questions like 'How can we communicate with the non-human intelligence?' and 'Is God lonely?'. Speaking in 10 different languages – including Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew – 7 told the couple 'swim'. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Mum told to pay police officer £50 for striking him in the face with toilet roll MORE: Inside 807ft skyscraper in a forest that's almost as tall as London's Shard MORE: Speed camera catches a duck doing nearly double the limit twice in seven years
Fox News
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Pro-trans athlete protesters chant 'Hail Satan!' at girls during California school board meeting
A school board meeting in California Thursday night included protesters chanting "Hail Satan!" in support of transgender athletes in girls sports. The Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) board meeting in San Bernardino County featured opposing protesters delivering impassioned speeches on the issue, and many speeches cited biblical scripture. At one point, police escorted a woman who was there to oppose trans inclusion, citing the Bible. Footage from the meeting shows several protesters there to support trans inclusion, chanting "Hail Satan!" "Yes, public comments did include speakers saying, 'Hail Satan,'" the school district said in a statement. CVUSD school board President Sonja Shaw condemned the protesters's chants. "At last night's board meeting, we passed several pro-parent and pro-female athlete resolutions that provide measures that protect girls sports and uphold the fundamental rights of parents to raise and guide their children without government interference or radical agendas," Shaw told Fox News Digital. "In response, a small but loud group of outside agitators descended on our meeting, screaming, cussing and even chanting phrases like 'Hail Satan' all in front of families and children. "According to what was shared with me from their own social media posts, they tried to rally tons of outside groups to overwhelm our district, but what a complete embarrassment. That's all they got? A handful of angry, disruptive individuals trying to bully a community that's working to protect kids and ensure that education remains focused on learning, not divisive ideologies." Shaw added that she received a death threat via email in the days leading up to the meeting in response to her stance opposing trans inclusion in girls sports. "Just a few days before this meeting, I received a violent and graphic death threat in my email. This is the level of hatred and evil we're up against. But no threat, no mob and no political machine will scare me into silence," Shaw said. Multiple parents who attended the meeting told Fox News Digital what they witnessed. "What we witnessed was deeply unsettling — adults behaving in a sadistic and hateful way, all in the name of equality," said Christina Salazar, who's daughter Isabel's speech at the meeting was interrupted by the chants. "There was even a teacher from my daughter's school who was interrupting the meeting yelling and said 'Hail Satan' as he walked out and flipped everyone off." Fellow San Bernardino County mother Nichole Vicario claims some of the opposing protesters identify as "Satanists." "I also witnessed extreme and inappropriate behavior from the opposing side. Some individuals shouted "Hail Satan," identified themselves as Satanists and used vulgar, aggressive language throughout the meeting, even with children present," Vicario said. "Despite the chaos, the board remained composed and strong, clearly committed to protecting girls sports, not just for Chino Valley, but as a stand for girls across California and potentially the entire country." The state has seen multiple chaotic occurrences at school board meetings in recent months related to debates over trans athlete inclusion. During a Lucia Mar Unified School District (LMUSD) board meeting Wednesday, a high school junior track athlete at Arroyo Grande High School named Celeste Diest cried during a speech recounting her experience of having to change in front of a biological male trans athlete before practice while that athlete allegedly watched her undress. But her speech was interrupted when she was told to "wrap it up" by the board president. After her speech, the audience erupted in a roaring applause, and the board president began slamming her gavel down to try and temper the growing applause, but the cheers only got louder after that. In December, a Riverside Unified School District board meeting drew national attention and massive opposing protests outside the meeting. Multiple witnesses from the meeting previously told Fox News Digital pro-trans activists at the event were harassing the anti-trans protesters on the other side and disrupting a women's prayer group during a prayer circle prior to the meeting. The prayer group, Young Women for America (YWA)'s Inland Empire chapter in California, alleged pro-transgender activists showered them with insults. "Members of the pro-LGBTQ groups started heckling and harassing the people in line who were speaking in opposition of their values. Some of these adult protesters were even coming up to the young girls that were going to be speaking and were yelling at them close to their face," YWA Inland Empire Chapter President Tori Hitchcock alleged. A new bipartisan survey by the Public Policy Institute of California found the majority of California residents oppose biological male trans athletes competing in women's sports. That figure included more than 70% of the state's school parents. "Most Californians support requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams matching the sex they were assigned at birth," the poll stated. "Solid majorities of adults (65%) and likely voters (64%) support requiring that transgender athletes compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth, not the gender they identify with. An overwhelming majority of public school parents (71%) support such a requirement." Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Arkansas lawmakers pursue another pointless adventure in gesture politics
A 3D render of a closeup of the biblical Ten Commandments etched in a stone tablet, highlighting the ninth commandment. () Seven years of expensive legal wrangling over displaying the Ten Commandments outside of the State Capitol — which opened the door for Satanists to demand their own display of a goat-headed winged creature named Baphomet — should have taught Arkansas legislators the folly of trying to sanction religious messages in a secular republic. Instead, Arkansas Republicans have launched another pointless adventure in gesture politics by voting to require public schools to post the Ten Commandments — a list that oddly grew from 10 to 12 in an effort to camouflage religious dogma as 'historical' text to survive constitutional scrutiny in federal court. The 10 Commandments bill, sponsored by Sen. Jim Dotson, R-Bentonville, and Rep. Alyssa Brown, R-Heber Springs, has been sent to Gov. Sarah Sanders for her signature after passing the House and Senate. It's the latest example of something that we see far too often at the Capitol: Legislation initiated by political activists from outside of Arkansas — in this case, a father-son duo from Texas — that costs taxpayers money and makes us look ridiculous. The insurmountable problem in setting out a list of commandments acceptable for public display is that there is no historical or theological agreement about what the 10 Commandments actually are. Most Protestants use a slightly different list than do Catholics and Lutherans, while Jews use yet a third set. Different faiths also number them differently. The complexity of the task did not, alas, raise any apparent concerns about its wisdom. Instead, the commandment numbers were just stripped away, and the remaining differences finessed by snatching bits and pieces from all three versions of the Judeo-Christian ethical menu. As you can see from the bill's text, the result is 12 unnumbered commandments, although the first item on the list — 'I am the Lord thy God,' a nod to the Jewish version — might be more of a statement of authority than a command. The list also trims away language used in the biblical passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy on which the commandments are based, including an exhortation not to covet our neighbor's donkey, although not coveting his cattle still made the cut. We might be tempted to call this the Razorback Revised Version of the 10 Commandments, except the list follows word-for-word a similar law passed by lawmakers in neighboring Louisiana last year that was quickly blocked by a federal judge. The version used in Louisiana and in Dotson and Brown's bill is recognizably Protestant enough to cause problems in federal court. The language is drawn from the post-Reformation King James Version of the Bible, and it includes a prohibition on making 'graven images' that Catholics don't include (which some conservative Protestants cite as evidence of Catholics' embrace of idolatry.) The capriciousness of this process was perhaps best summed up on the House floor by one of the only two Republicans who voted against the bill, Rep. Steve Unger, R-Springdale, a former military chaplain: 'I'm afraid what this does is it takes something holy and makes it trivial.' There is nothing wrong, per se, with promoting ethical precepts. We should all be able to agree that murder, stealing, lying and adultery are destructive and ought to be discouraged, that Mom and Dad should be given their props, and that coveting what other people have is a waste of energy that only leads to discontent (the latter being a central tenet of Buddhism.) But here, those ethical standards are embedded within an overtly sectarian framework. They flow from the authority of a deity, not merely from the desire to be decent human beings and treat each other with respect. Arguing that a list that starts out with 'I am the Lord Thy God,' prohibits idolatry right off the bat and demands recognition of a Sabbath is not a religious teaching is in a word incredible, as is the idea that passive exposure to the 10 Commandments on a classroom wall will somehow make students better people in the absence of more hands-on ethical instruction. Or get them to stop worshipping Baal. This particular bill of goods was sold to Arkansas legislators by David and Tim Barton, a father and son team from Texas who lead WallBuilders, a group that promotes the pseudohistory that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and opposes the separation of church and state. Dotson and Brown let the Bartons explain the rationale for the bill during committee hearings, where they insisted that it was simply a way to revive the 10 Commandments as an historical artifact. Tim Barton illustrated this claim by noting that the commandments were published in the 17th century New England Primer and in the McGuffy Readers, a textbook popular in the middle of the 19th century: 'If there's something we've always done in America, it's probably fine to keep doing it.' Of course, there were a lot of things that we did in America until the Supreme Court told us we had to stop, which it did 45 years ago in striking down a Kentucky law mandating display of the 10 Commandments in public schools. The Bartons are resting their hopes on a different outcome this time around because of a 2022 Supreme Court decision that said school officials could not prevent a high school football coach from leading post-game prayers with his players. Most Arkansas legislators were assuaged by this argument. But voluntary prayer that takes place in a school setting is a much different animal than mandating that public schools post religious dogma. Indeed, Rep. Nicole Clowney, D-Fayetteville, warned her colleagues, to no avail, that the Supreme Court has consistently maintained promoting religious messages in schools has a 'coercive' impact on students that is constitutionally impermissible — an argument echoed by the judge who struck down Louisiana's law. Of course, it's easy for the Bartons to advocate for moving full steam ahead in defiance of binding Supreme Court precedent because, if Arkansas gets dragged into federal court, they won't be on the hook for the legal costs. We will. Indeed, gesture politics can be a rather expensive hobby, which ought to be a compelling argument for Arkansas legislators to stop indulging in it. But, hey, somebody has to protect our cattle from all that unneighborly coveting.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Satanist leader and others arrested at Kansas Statehouse amid religious rallies
Kansas Highway Patrol officers arrested multiple people during competing rallies by Christians and Satanists at the Statehouse in Topeka. Michael Stewart, the leader of the Satanic Grotto, was led away by law enforcement after an altercation at the rotunda of the first floor of the Capitol building. He was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly. Also arrested was Marcus Jeremiah Jared Schroeder, who was punched in the face by Stewart. That happened after Schroeder reached for a paper Stewart was holding while reciting a Satanic verse. Schroeder was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Schroeder is a Christian anti-abortion and anti-homosexuality activist who was previously pled guilty to disorderly conduct for his actions at an LGBTQ pride rally in Wisconsin Shawnee County Jail records showed Jocelyn Krysteen Frazee and Sean Anderson were arrested on suspicion of unlawful assembly. They were on the Satanist side of the rally. The Kansas Highway Patrol confirmed that they will submit the cases to the District Attorney's Office for review. A Capitol Police officer said there were four total arrests, all made by Capitol Police and members of the Kansas Highway Patrol. The altercation happened amid competing religious rallies at the Statehouse on March 28. It had been scheduled to be the last day of the regular legislative session, but lawmakers wrapped up their work the night before. Satanists held a black mass on the east steps of the Capitol building, while Catholics prayed and sang songs at the south steps as another group of Christians yelled back and forth with the Satanists. (This story was updated to add new information.) This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Satanist leader arrested after throwing punch at Kansas Statehouse
