Fortune teller fails to predict furor over comments to gay man

[Liberal_in_LA]

Ocean City fortune teller fails to predict furor over comments to gay man

OCEAN CITY - A Tarot reading on the city's Boardwalk turned ugly this week after a fortuneteller told a gay client he was going to hell.

The reading led to a loud public argument, a police investigation and an anti-discrimination petition circulating among Boardwalk merchants.

Jamie Cohen, 22, of Los Angeles, is in Ocean City this week for an annual family reunion. On Sunday, he accompanied his grandmother on her annual summer visit to Cora's Readings on the 10th Street Boardwalk.

The store was busy, with a line stretching out the door. June Mitchell, the daughter of the store's owner, greeted Cohen and began a half-deck Tarot reading.

Almost immediately, the conversation got off on the wrong foot, Cohen said.

"She said, 'Your parents don't accept you for who you are,'" he said. "I said, 'No, they accept me.' She told me they were lying."

Mitchell said the cards did not bode well for his love life, either. When Mitchell informed him he was full of negative energy, Cohen said he had heard enough. He stormed out of the store without paying the $20 fee.

Cohen accidentally left his phone under his chair. When he went back to retrieve it, he said he got into a shouting match with Mitchell, who ordered him out of the store and, in front of a crowd, called him a slur used to denigrate gays.

"I just wanted to go home to Los Angeles after that. I wanted to crawl up in a ball with my boyfriend and not move," Cohen said.

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Mitchell, a born-again Christian, said her religious doctrine opposes homosexuality. She conceded this same doctrine does not exactly condone Tarot reading, a skill she inherited from her mother.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/cape_may/article_0476667c-82f9-11de-8e42-001cc4c03286.html

[Mythsaje]

1. A born-again tarot reader?

<sigh>

What's the world coming to? He should've gone to a nice pagan tarot reader. They, at least, are far less likely to be so judgmental. Of course, wicca doesn't exactly have a history of being particularly gay friendly until fairly recently.

"Your fortune? You're going to meet up with a bigot with a deck of cards."

[Systematic Chaos]

2. That has to be one hell of a painful disconnect rattling around in her widdle bwain.

What a freak. :(

[Heidi]

3. Oh, good, another Leviticus Christian preying on gays. Why was Mitchell telling fortunes, anyway?

Leviticus 19:31: Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I the LORD your God."

[lapfog_1]

4. "Burn the witch!!! Burn the witch!!!"

That's what the fortune teller would have heard in years gone by here... or even NOW in parts of Africa where some forms of born again evangelical religion have taken hold.

[WillParkinson]

5. She conceded this same doctrine does not exactly condone Tarot reading, a skill she inherited...

It takes skills to flip a card and lie to someone?

And isn't there something about death for seers in the bible?

[BR_Parkway]

6. Forced to choose between her 'Christian' beliefs and her income stream

she chose the income stream, in spite of versus in the Bible telling her not to practice this 'skill'. And then uses her 'faith' to pass judgment on someone else because they aren't living according to her 'beliefs'.

Color me "oh, so not fucking surprised"

[marmar]

7. A fraud and a homophobe.....

What an asshole.

[salguine]

8. If her sect is that fanatical and puritanical, it's a good be they don't know what she does

on the boardwalk in Ocean City. Sure be a shame if they got wind of it.

[donco6]

9. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."

And that's a "shalt not" - like, one of the big ones.