The mainstream national media missed some drama on Saturday when they failed to cover the thousands of people who showed up in over 300 places to protest Planned Parenthood.
Clad in black robes, members of the Satanic Temple of Detroit drenched bound women with milk, simulating water-boarding to "illustrate the theocratic agenda imposed upon female bodies." The milk symbolized breast milk, one of the protest organizers explained on Facebook.
Besides placing the Satanic pentagram symbol over the stars (the Union) on the American flag, the video shows one of the "priests" carrying a crucifix.
Satan worshipers believe that "Satan is representative of the eternal rebel, enlightened inquiry and personal freedom," proclaims the Satanic Temple's web site.
The man in the yellow T-shirt is apparently the pro-life protester who, according to Boland, tried to break up the Satanic group and get them to move along. He moves in to confront the group near the beginning of the video.
Also worth noting is the symbolism of the "mother's milk" theatrics. There were other ways to represent water-boarding – starting with using water. Using milk, which for human females comes when a child has actually been born, certainly looks like an attempt to subvert the very message of life being emphasized by the pro-life demonstrators.
The use of mother's breast milk in death rituals cropped up elsewhere in the pagan world, with the report of the ancient Romans ritually "feeding" breast milk to the deceased, to symbolize an anxious desire in the living to see the dead come back to life. This was said to have been done in the name of the goddess Nenia, the deity of funerary ritual, and on some occasions to have involved nursing mothers beating their breasts until both milk and blood flowed out.
There is nothing morally sanitary about pushing for abortion on the basis demanded by Planned Parenthood and its supporters. Nor is there anything enlightened about the "beliefs" of Satan worshipers who increasingly show up to demonstrate for abortion. The remarkable aspect of our time is how clearly that truth is being shown to us.