Kansas House committee advances resolution condemning planned 'black mass' on Capitol grounds

A Kansas House committee on March 20 advanced a nonbinding resolution condemning a planned “black mass” on the State Capitol grounds after a contentious hour of testimony and debate.

House Resolution 6016 — described by a legislative revisor as a statement of attitude with no force of law — “denounces a planned satanic worship ritual” scheduled to occur on Capitol grounds, according to testimony read into the record. The committee voted 17–5 to waive notice and take up the resolution the same day, then voted to pass it out of committee by voice.

The measure drew testimony from Catholic advocates who described the event as an attack on Catholic worship and said organizers had indicated they would use a consecrated host. Lucretia Nold, policy specialist for the Kansas Catholic Conference, told the committee the conference and the state bishops are pursuing “every single form of…