{"id":180866,"date":"2016-12-07T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/07\/hail-satan\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:46:00","slug":"hail-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/07\/hail-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fUspLVStPbk\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>How could I not invoke Monty Python?<\/i><\/div>\n<p>In response to a Texas law requiring burial or cremation for fetuses, <a href=\"https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/cum-rags-for-congress-satanists-protest-texas-abortion-law-with-semen-socks\">the Church of Satan is launching a campaign to have its supporters mail semen covered items to the governor and legislature<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Earlier this week, Texas officials <a href=\"https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/in-deranged-attack-on-womens-rights-texas-will-require-funerals-for-fetuses\">finalized a set of rules requiring funeral services for fetuses<\/a> in what many see as a transparent and particularly callous ploy to restrict abortion access in the state. In response, Satanic Temple spokesperson Jex Blackmore has announced plans to engage in a crass counter-attack.<\/p>\n<p>Having mailed a ejaculate-covered sock to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, along with a handwritten note that says, &#8220;These r babies. Plz bury,&#8221; Blackmore is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JexBlackmore\/photos\/a.878960368854795.1073741828.872105932873572\/1178015955615900\/?type=3&amp;theater\">publicly encouraging<\/a> others to send Governor Abbott semen-encrusted materials of their own (or, for those wary of sending bodily fluids through the mail, items coated in non-seminal-but-semen-esque substances).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to Blackmore, this campaign, which is evocatively titled &#8220;Cumrags for Congress,&#8221; is meant to expose the absurdity of forcing people to treat fetal tissue as human remains. (Lucien Greaves, another spokesperson for the organization, tells Broadly that the campaign isn&#8217;t officially endorsed or encouraged by the Satanic Temple.) &#8220;The concept of the state mandating a non-medical ritual as part of the abortion procedure is offensive and crude, essentially demanding that all citizens adopt the moral, philosophical opinion that fetal tissue is comparable to a living human,&#8221; she tells Broadly. &#8220;Fetal tissue has the &#8216;potential&#8217; to become a human, but is not a human yet, does not have consciousness, and cannot exist without the mother host.&#8221; She points out that semen and ova have the potential to become human life, yet &#8220;we do not mourn every ejaculation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not a usually big fan of guerilla theater, but the Church of Satan has been doing some magnificent trolling lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could I not invoke Monty Python? In response to a Texas law requiring burial or cremation for fetuses, the Church of Satan is launching a campaign to have its supporters mail semen covered items to the governor and legislature: Earlier this week, Texas officials finalized a set of rules requiring funeral services for fetuses &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[883,869,836,816,849,824],"class_list":["post-180866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-legislation","tag-religion","tag-stupid","tag-video","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}