Gay satanists

This may be the world's largest ever gathering of Satanists - and it's about to begin at a Marriott hotel in downtown Boston. In a candle-lit room set aside for Satanic ceremonies, a neon sign welcomes you to The Little Black Chapel. A raised altar stands at one end, a white pentagram on the floor in front of it. The ritual being performed here is an "unbaptism", in which participants symbolically reject religious rites performed when they were children.

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IN FB. This cautionary tale was initially entitled The Monkey's Pudendum. Using the same irony as its namesake, "The Monkey's Paw," a mysterious stranger promises Rowan Mallory his deepest desire: his little curse will expand, and he will be "the biggest in town. This painful condition comes with an additional demonic curse that prevents him from forming lasting connections.

A group of satanists say they've given the controversial Westboro Baptist Church a taste of its own medicine, performing a same-sex ritual at the grave of the mother of the church's founder. Members of the Satanist Temple performed on Sunday what its spokesman describes as a "pink mass" an admittedly made-up ritual, celebrating gay love, at the grave in Meridian, Miss. Spokesman Lucien Greaves doffed a headdress made of horns as two male couples, and a female couple recited scripture, lit candles and made out over the grave. Members then posthumously declared Catherine Johnston, the mother of Westboro's founder Fred Phelps, a lesbian.