The leader of the Satanic Grotto group that attempted to make a demonic dedication at the Kansas State Capitol has been arrested after punching a young Catholic man who disrupted the ritual.
Video footage of the arrest provided to LifeSiteNews shows the leader of the group, Michael Stewart, being apprehend by law enforcement inside the Kansas Statehouse.
Stewart made the sign of the devil with one hand and held a paper to read from in the other.
"Jesus Christ is King!" announced a heckling bystander.
Stewart made his acknowledgement to the "prince of darkness...in the presence of all the dread demons."
A protester tried to grab the paper from Stewart's hand. Stewart responding by punching the man in the face twice with his right hand, the contact making an audible smack.
As Stewart was arrested, he repeatedly said, "I am not resisting."
According to a local report from WIBW detailing the lead up to the arrest, law enforcement members at the Statehouse “greeted Stewart at the door, telling him he was welcome inside the building, but he could not perform any demonstrations.” Stewart reportedly agreed, but after making his way to the rotunda he “held his arms skyward and made a dedication” to the demons.
It was then that a “woman confronted him, saying he was not allowed to do that, while a man approached holding a medallion and praying.”
Members of the Satanic Grotto had said previously that they planned to defy Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s order banning their blasphemous “black mass” from taking place inside the Capitol building.
Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann also repeatedly denounced the profane event. In a recent letter to Catholics, he stated that “the devil has no power over us.”
To protest the “black mass” and to make reparation to God, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property organized and held a Rosary rally outside the Kansas State Capitol Friday morning Hundreds of Catholics gathered to pray.
While Western governments often permit these public displays of blasphemy, citing freedom of speech or freedom of religion, Catholic teaching is not onside.
Pope Pius XI’s 1925 encyclical Quas Primas said “rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” because “his kingly dignity demands that the State should take account of the commandments of God and of Christian principles, both in making laws and in administering justice, and also in providing for the young a sound moral education.”