TAKE ACTION:<\/strong> After you read the post below, here is what you can do to take action<\/a>.<\/p>\n Original post follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n Reading the Anchoress\u2019s excellent coverage of the \u201cBlack Mass\u201d<\/a> that is being promoted at Harvard University, I did some checking up on the man calling himself Lucien Greaves, the face of the Satanic Temple, which is behind the sick event.<\/p>\n It turns out that Greaves was previously known as Doug Mesner, which apparently is also a pseudonym: his real name, according to his lengthy Internet trail, appears to be Doug Misicko.<\/p>\n In an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0conducted last July by pornographer<\/a>\u00a0Shane Bugbee, a Satanist who worked closely with Misicko in developing the Satanic Temple, Greaves says he studied at Harvard and that among his main interests are debunking \u201cfalse memories\u201d of ritual child sex abuse. (Bugbee was a longtime mentor to Greaves, but has more recently written a lengthy blog entry in which he dissociates himself<\/a>\u00a0from his former prot\u00e9g\u00e9.)<\/p>\n More Internet searching shows Greaves, as Doug Mesner, works closely with the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, which was founded<\/a>\u00a0by Pamela and Peter Freyd after their adult daughter Jennifer accused her father of rape. (Remember Jennifer\u2019s name; it comes up later.) One of the organization\u2019s founding members, the late Ralph Underwager, gave a lengthy interview to a pro-pedophilia journal in the 1990s in which he criticized pedophiles for not being \u201cbold enough.\u201d Underwager said, \u00a0\u201cPedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness they can say, \u2018I believe this is in fact part of God\u2019s will.'\u201d<\/p>\n To be fair, Underwager, when criticized over the interview, said his comments had been taken out of context. You can read his full interview here.<\/a> Then read his own article<\/a> where he speaks of how he was misinterpreted. I think it\u2019s obvious he wasn\u2019t misinterpreted at all.<\/p>\n Underwager gave expert testimony on \u201cFalse Memory Syndrome\u201d in court on behalf of many accused abusers. Here is a transcript of a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d-style expos\u00e9<\/a> in which he was caught contradicting himself in sworn testimony. Again, he does not come off very well.<\/p>\n All of which is to say that, as a victim of child sexual abuse<\/a>, I do not think very much of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation or its co-founder Underwager, and so likewise do not think much of Greaves\u2019 association with it or his ridiculing people who claim to have recovered memories of child sex abuse<\/a>. (Again, he has a long Internet trail, which in this case shows quite a bit of vituperation directed at child sex-abuse victims and those who support them.)<\/p>\n Moreover, I am not encouraged by the fact that Greaves is close with registered sex offender Adam B. Daniels, who, along with his wife, run a Satanic worship center in Oklahoma. Here is a video interview<\/a> in which they talk about why they personally submitted the application for Greaves\u2019 Satanic Temple to build a monument to Satan at the Oklahoma State Capitol.\u00a0Just this week, Daniels\u00a0told an Oklahoma news stations of his \u201cconversations\u201d<\/a>\u00a0with Greaves.<\/p>\n Look up \u201cAdam B. Daniels\u201d in the national sex offender registry<\/a> and you will see that he was convicted of sexual battery in 2009. The rap sheet notes that he has satanic tattoos all over his body. The court ruled that he had to remain on the registry for life.<\/p>\n In what appears to be some sort of sick joke, the website of Daniels\u2019 Satanic \u201cchurch\u201d features a \u201crape awareness\u201d<\/a> page decorated with images of flowers.<\/p>\n Greaves too has committed criminal sexual activity. He was photographed last year exposing himself upon the grave site of the mother of the Westboro Baptist Church founder as part of what he called a \u201csatanic ritual,\u201d which you can read about\u00a0here<\/a>. (Not linking to the photo.)<\/p>\n All things considered, when I read that Greaves says<\/a> he intends the \u201cBlack Mass\u201d \u00a0to be \u201can expression of personal independence from overwhelming cultural influences,\u201d I have to ask, from what kind of cultural influences does he seek independence? From where I can see, by engaging in a hateful mockery of the Catholic faith, he seeks to declare independence from the teaching that human beings should be protected from all forms of harmful exploitation<\/a>. He seeks to declare independence from the one institution in the world that has, for two thousand years, defended the dignity of the human person<\/a>\u00a0against those who would use and abuse others for their own ends. Finally, in his vituperative attacks against victims (which, from his Internet trail, are clearly personal and go far beyond \u201cdebunking\u201d psychological theories), he declares himself independent from the Church which teaches not only that intrinsic evils exist, but that one of those intrinsic evils is rape<\/a>.<\/p>\n I said I would return to the subject of Jennifer Freyd, whose parents founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation to \u201cdebunk\u201d her allegations of childhood sexual abuse. She is now Dr.<\/em> Jennifer Freyd, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, and an internationally known expert on trauma and abuse<\/a>. One of the terms she brought into the psychology vocabulary is \u201cinstitutional betrayal,\u201d<\/a> which refers to \u201cwrongdoings perpetrated by an institution upon individuals dependent on that institution, including failure to prevent or respond supportively to wrongdoings by individuals (e.g. sexual assault) committed within the context of the institution.\u201d<\/p>\n Here is a website<\/a> created by members of a university community who say they seek to combat \u201cinstitutional betrayal\u201d at their own school. The school is Harvard, and the name of the website is \u201cOur Harvard Can Do Better.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Given that the news broke just this week that Harvard is on a list of colleges being investigated<\/a> by the feds for potentially mishandling sex-abuse and assault charges, I would say Harvard can do a lot better if it wants to tell abusive people that they are not welcome. It can start by pulling back the welcome mat it has offered to Lucien Greaves.<\/p>\n Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for how you can take action and make your voice heard.<\/strong><\/p>\n