A band called Satanic Planet — featuring Lucien Greaves, co-founder of The Satanic Temple — filmed performer Martina Rinaldi walking into a Hobby Lobby store, heading to the bathroom, and performing what the group calls an abortion ritual. They released it as a music video for a track titled "Sam Alito's Mom."

The video — which dropped on August 31 — alternates footage of Rinaldi inside the store with snapshots of Hobby Lobby merchandise referencing Jesus, all set to what the publication described as "satanic screams from the band." The filming reportedly took place back in March.

The Satanic Temple described the ritual as a "protective rite" meant to "cast off the guilt when choosing to have an abortion." They went further, stating it "serves to empower the patient against those with theocratic religious convictions."

So we're clear on the logic here. A group that worships the adversary of God walked into a store owned by Christians, filmed a mock abortion ritual in the bathroom, named the song after a Supreme Court justice's mother, and then explained — with a straight face — that this was about "empowerment."

The Satanic Temple has spent years insisting they're not really about Satan — they're about "bodily autonomy" and "religious pluralism" and all the other vocabulary words that play well in magazine profiles. The abortion ritual, they say, is a "protected religious practice" designed to help patients feel less guilt.

Which raises a question nobody in the media will ask: if abortion is healthcare, and healthcare is morally neutral, why does it require a ritual to remove guilt?

This wasn't a protest. It wasn't art. It was a targeting exercise. They didn't film this at Target. They walked into a store whose owners fought the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate all the way to the Supreme Court — and won — and chose that bathroom specifically because of who signs the checks.

Lucien Greaves has built an entire organization around this particular contradiction. The Satanic Temple files lawsuits claiming religious exemptions for abortion. They install Baphomet statues next to Ten Commandments monuments. Every move is designed to use the machinery of religious liberty against the people who built it. It's not clever. It's a one-note provocation that stopped being interesting three news cycles ago.

But the Hobby Lobby stunt tells you something the press releases don't. They didn't go after a government building. They didn't target a megachurch. They went after a craft store — a place where families buy pipe cleaners and foam boards for school projects — because the family that owns it believes in God and had the audacity to say so in federal court.