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Tommy Valentine: Thousands of Christians Counter Satanist ‘Black Mass’ at the Kansas State Capitol

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When a tiny band of self-proclaimed satanists announced they would hold a “black mass” in front of the Kansas State Capitol, they wanted to inflame Christians. And they did, but it was not with the type of fire they intended. They managed to galvanize thousands of Christians with the fire of the Holy Spirit.

Across the state, Catholics and their fellow Christians spent more time praying on Friday than they would have normally. Special masses and holy hours were held in Catholic churches in every corner of Kansas in reparation for the sacrilege planned at the Capitol.

Thousands gathered on the Capitol grounds to pray peacefully, outnumbering the handful of satanists by many orders of magnitude. So, when the satanists were screaming expletives at peaceful Christians, they didn’t look powerful or edgy. They looked rather pathetic.

Those outside were perhaps outnumbered by those indoors across the street where the real action was, at Assumption Catholic Church. The Kansas Catholic Conference announced a special holy hour followed by a real Mass as an answer to the black mass. By the time the holy hour began, the church was already completely full. Local Knights of Columbus members directed the ongoing stream of people to another church a mile away, which quickly filled to bursting.

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Kansas Archbishop Alleges Satanic Group Stole Sacred Wine and Wafers for Upcoming Statehouse ‘Black Mass’

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. . .A Kansas bishop claims a group of Satanists stole sacred wafers and wine to use in a “Black Mass” they’re holding at the state capitol — but the unholy hell-raisers claim their body and blood of Christ merely came from “Pope Amazon.”

Kansas City Catholic Archbishop Joseph Naumann sued Satanic Grotto leaders Travis Roberts and Michael Stewart in Leavenworth District Court Friday, accusing them of using “theft, fraud, deception, wrongful taking, or other form of misappropriation” to obtain the holy host and wine.

“Consecrated Hosts and Wine are in fact the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ,” Naumann’s filing read, explaining that such sacred objects could only ever fall into Satanists’ hands through devilish design.

But the lord of darkness had nothing to do with it, according to Satanist Stewart, who told the Kansas City Star that his sacred snacks “came from Pope Amazon” — meaning he bought them online.

Stewart also brushed aside virulent reactions that his group’s plans for the March 28 Black Mass — a sort of inverted Catholic service he described as “a cathartic expression of sorrow, rage, and healing” — have inflamed. (Read more from “Kansas Archbishop Alleges Satanic Group Stole Sacred Wine and Wafers for Upcoming Statehouse ‘Black Mass’” HERE)

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Kansas Is Currently at Center of ‘Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak in Recorded US History’

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Kansas is currently host to the largest tuberculosis outbreak recorded in U.S. history, health officials warn.

The state had 66 active cases and 79 latent infections in the Kansas City metro area, health officials reported on Jan. 17. Most of the cases have come out of Wyandotte County, though some have also been reported in Johnson County.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also recently warned of a deadly “rabbit fever” on the rise as the bird flu continues to raise concerns.

“Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history,” warned Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, to the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee on Tuesday. . .

Tuberculosis is a contagious disease that is caused by a bacterial infection in the lungs that the CDC has been monitoring cases since the 1950s. (Read more from “Kansas Is Currently at Center of ‘Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak in Recorded US History’” HERE)

Kansas Church’s Attendance Doubles After ‘Blessing’ Congregation With Firearms

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A church near the Kansas-Missouri state line is raising eyebrows after “blessing” some of its members with guns for Father’s Day and the Fourth of July.

The River Church of Kansas City meets in Lenexa, Kansas just outside of Kansas City. It describes itself as a “spirit-filled church for the hungry, the thirsty and the broken” on its website.

Back in June, the church posted pictures to its Facebook page celebrating a member who won its raffle of an AR-15 rifle for Father’s Day — which can cost up to $1,200.

River Church had fewer than 100 members when it gave away the AR-15, but the Facebook post garnered almost 2,500 comments and close to 2,000 shares. . .

“Our attendance doubled after this whole thing happened,” Zehner said. “So I think people were looking at this like, ‘Wow, there’s somebody that stood up for our rights and freedoms and actually has a backbone.’” (Read more from “Kansas Church’s Attendance Doubles After ‘Blessing’ Congregation With Firearms” HERE)

Biden Extends Losing Streak as Third Judge Blocks Rule Adding ‘Gender Identity’ to Title IX

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A federal judge in Kansas temporarily blocked the Department of Education’s Title IX rewrite in four states, marking the third straight court loss by the administration as it struggles to defend its final rule adding “gender identity” to the landmark act against sex discrimination in education.

U.S. District Judge John Broomes granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday prohibiting the department from enforcing the policy, which was slated to take effect Aug. 1, in four states: Kansas, Alaska, Utah and Wyoming.

Not only that, but the order covers “every school attended by the members of Young America’s Foundation and the children of Moms for Liberty members,” who brought the lawsuit along with the four states and Female Athletes United.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach cheered the decision, saying that his office has had many court victories, “but to me, this is the biggest one yet.”

“It protects girls and women across the country from having their privacy rights and safety violated in bathrooms and locker rooms and from having their freedom of speech violated if they say there are only two sexes,” the Republican official in a statement. (Read more from “Biden Extends Losing Streak as Third Judge Blocks Rule Adding ‘Gender Identity’ to Title IX” HERE)

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Newspaper Owner Sues Small Kansas City, Police Department for Raiding His Home and Office: ‘Illegal as Hell’

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The owner of a small newspaper in Marion, Kansas, a city of fewer than 2,000 residents, is suing his city and local police department, among other defendants, after officers conducted a raid on his home and newspaper office last summer.

On Monday, Eric Meyer, owner of the Marion County Record, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Kansas, claiming that various public figures, in their official and personal capacities, violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights when they searched his home and office in August 2023. During those raids, investigators apparently seized computers, servers, hard drives, and even personal cell phones belonging to reporters, as Blaze News previously reported.

The raids on Meyer’s home and office related to Kari Newell, a prominent Marion businesswoman who was seeking a liquor license for her restaurant. However, Meyer had received a tip that Newell had been illegally driving on a suspended license after a previous DUI conviction, information that likely would have put Newell’s liquor license request in jeopardy.

Though Meyer’s paper, the Marion County Record, never ran a story about Newell’s past, Meyer did contact then-Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody and Marion County Sheriff Jeff Soyez to say that he would investigate whether local law enforcement had knowingly permitted Newell to drive on a suspended license.

Newell, who had also recently asked Meyer and another Record reporter to leave her coffee shop during an event for a Republican congressman, later accused Meyer of obtaining her private information in an “illegal” manner. (Read more from “Newspaper Owner Sues Small Kansas City, Police Department for Raiding His Home and Office: ‘Illegal as Hell’” HERE)

WATCH: ‘Unprecedented Raid’ on 98-Year-Old’s Home Ends in Tragedy

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A newly released video shows police in Marion, Kansas, physically raiding the home of the 98-year-old co-owner of a local newspaper that the police chief had accused of improper behavior.

What the New York Post called the “unprecedented raid” is being blamed for the woman’s cardiac arrest and death just 24 hours later.

And public sentiment has come down – hard – on the side of the woman, Joan Meyer. . .

The video (including Joan Meyer’s salty language):

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First Amendment Concerns Raised After Police Seize Materials From Small-Town Kansas Newspaper Office and Staff Homes During Raid

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A small-town newspaper in Kansas is raising First Amendment questions on a national level after local police raided its office and homes of staffers on Friday, seizing material linked to alleged identity theft violations.

Marion County Record, a family-owned weekly newspaper published in the midwestern state about 60 miles north of Wichita, was named in a search warrant signed by Marion County Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar on Friday morning, which alleges violations of identity theft and “unlawful acts concerning computers.” CNN reported.

Eric Meyer, co-owner and publisher of the paper founded more than 150 years ago in the small city of Marion, reportedly said four Marion police officers and three sheriff’s deputies seized personal cell phones, computers, and other materials at his home and Marion County Record office, including some unrelated equipment needed to publish.

“Our first priority is to be able to publish next week,” Meyer said. “But we also want to make sure no other news organization is ever exposed to the Gestapo tactics we witnessed today.”

Reporter Deb Gruver wrote in a post on Facebook she had filed a report with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that accused Marion, Kansas Police Chief Gideon Cody of re-injuring a previously dislocated finger after he allegedly “forcibly yanked” her cell phone from her hand. (Read more from “First Amendment Concerns Raised After Police Seize Materials From Small-Town Kansas Newspaper Office and Staff Homes During Raid” HERE)

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Judge Blocks Dem Governor From Allowing Trans People to Change Gender on Driver’s License

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Shawnee County District Court Judge Teresa Watson has issued a temporary restraining order against a policy regarding gender changes from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas.

Kelly and the Kansas Department of Revenue have maintained a policy that allows transgender individuals to change their gender on driver’s licenses and birth certificates, despite recently-passed laws aimed at nixing the practice. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has challenged the Governor’s policy, arguing that it violates key sections of Senate Bill 180, which went into effect July 1.

“The Governor doesn’t get to veto a bill and then ignore the Legislature’s override. She is violating her oath of office to uphold Kansas law,” Kobach said Friday.

“The Attorney General points out that driver’s licenses are issued for a period of six years and are difficult to take back or out of circulation once issued,” the judge wrote in a temporary restraining order. “Licenses are used by law enforcement to identify criminal suspects, crime victims, wanted persons, missing persons, and others. Compliance with stated legal requirements for identifying license holders is a public safety concern.”

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Illegal Alien Has Convictions for Sexually Abusing Two Kids Overturned

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An illegal alien convicted of child sex crimes has had those convictions overturned by a Kansas judge after state prosecutors apparently filed the wrong charges against him.

Josue Manuel Arita, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was charged in 2019 by the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office with two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

According to prosecutors at the time, Arita sexually abused a seven-year-old boy and his eight-year-old sister on multiple occasions while the children stayed at his residence. About three years later, Arita was convicted on all four charges initially filed against him. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Has Convictions for Sexually Abusing Two Kids Overturned” HERE)

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