The president of a Kansas-based satanic group says it is going ahead with a planned “black Mass” inside the state’s capital building despite objections by the governor and Christian groups. He’s calling it an act of defiance.

The leader of a small group of self-described satanists and three other people were arrested Friday following a scuffle inside the Kansas Statehouse arising from an effort by the group’s leader to start a Black Mass in the rotunda.

If they were trying to do this to an Islamic or Jewish group, this wouldn’t be allowed,’ the shepherd of Kansas City told Raymond Arroyo on EWTN.