Wiccan Community Upset With O'Donnell, Calls Witchcraft Comments "Teaching Moment"

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/20/wiccan-community-upset-wi_n_731694.html

Christine O'Donnell's mercurial candidacy for the United States Senate has elevated the issue of witchcraft to uncommon political heights. But not everyone associated with the religion is pleased.

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"Yes, this was 11 years ago she said that," said Reverend Selena Fox, the High Priestess & Senior Minister of the Circle Sanctuary a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting paganism and nature spirituality. "But the kinds of things she is saying now, saying 'well in high school you are with despicable characters' or some such thing, she is actually defaming Wiccans. Whether she intends to do that or not as a way to try and get herself out of this political problem she has created for herself, the fact is America really needs to be a place where you can celebrate diversity and practice your religion without getting ridiculed or defamed."

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UPDATE: A spokesperson for the neopagan network "The Witches' Voice" who goes by the name "Diotima Mantineia" reached out to the Huffington Post to offer further condemnation of O'Donnell's initial witchcraft remarks. Making the point that there is a "very large pagan community in Delaware," Mantineia called the Delaware Republican's conflation of witchcraft and Satanism "disappointing."

I really have to question what she is talking about because witchcraft and Satanism are two different things... witches or Wiccans do not believe in Satan. We don't even believe that Satan exists. Satan is a Christian deity of some kind. He is part of the Christian religion not ours. We worship nature; we work very closely with nature. We do not have blood on our altar and we have little to do with Satan. So I don't know what Ms. O'Donnell is talking about. I wonder if she knows what she was talking about.

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I think the only thing Missy Christine knows is how to take money from donors and spend it on herself. This is the trouble that astroturf causes. I think she has been astroturf most of her life.

[UTUSN]

1. GO!1 Wiccans!1 n/t

[RKP5637]

2. Excellent! n/t

[dkf]

3. Did anyone think she was talking about Wiccans?

I thought it was more of some witch vampire goth thing myself.

[roguevalley]

4. she's a twitch. doesn't know anything. :)

[dkf]

5. Lol. That is more like it.

[Oilwellian]

6. Ms. O'Donnell participated in a satanic cult

In the name of Jesus, I can't wait to see Sarah Palin rebuke her. :D

[Touchdown]

7. Sorry. Wicca is only almost there.

What it really needs is talking snakes and virgins who have babies to be believable.

:evilgrin:

[Vidar]

8. Good for the Wiccans!