Help The Satanic Temple Adopt A Highway

Help The Satanic Temple ‘adopt a highway’ in New York City. Support religious diversity. The Satanic Temple supports community, compassion, justice, and civic responsibility. Help The Satanic Temple spread their message as they enter the adopt-a-highway program in New York City where they will maintain voluntary beautification of a stretch of public highway for at least 2 years by way of litter cleanup and landscaping.

Recently the Temple made news for a very different reason. In a protest against the Westboro Church they performed a “pink mass”. It was a same-sex union/celebration at the grave site of Westboro founder Fred Phelps’ mother’s grave. This is a spin on an old Christian grave site ceremony to baptize a departed soul.  “The idea for the Pink Mass ceremony and website came during the aftermath of the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, during which time the WBC were threatening to protest the funerals of the bombing victims,” explains Greaves. “Members of The Satanic Temple were in Boston, waiting for them, but they failed to show. Later, the WBC issued a statement that they had been present ‘in spirit’. We decided that a same-sex couple celebrating ceremony at the gravesite of Fred Phelps’s mother was an appropriate way to meet the Westboro Baptists, ‘in spirit’, but this time on our terms.”

Explaining the ceremony itself, Greaves continues, “The Satanic Temple now believes that Fred Phelps must believe that his mother is now gay, in the afterlife, due to our Pink Mass… And nobody can challenge our right to our beliefs.”

Now in an effort to broaden the scope of persuasion the Temple not only seeks to adopt the stretch of New York Highway but also seek members and supports from all over to proudly join and display their message of religious diversity and spiritual equality. There is a campaign happening right now over on Indiegogo for all to check out. Also click the highlighted areas in this post to go to the various Satanic Temple sites !