Monday, September 20, 2010

Wiccan community angered over Christine O'Donnell's negative portrait of witches and witchcraft

Delaware's Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell may have lost the Wiccan vote. O'Donnell's decade-old remarks about having "dabbled into witchcraft," which resurfaced on Friday, were ill-informed and disappointing, some in the pagan community have said.  "Any political candidate that is going to equate witchcraft with Satanism is ill informed and is not likely to get the support of people involved in nature religion," Reverend Selena Fox, the High Priestess & Senior Minister of the Circle Sanctuary, told the Huffington Post. Her non-profit organization is dedicated to promoting paganism and nature spirituality.

Full article: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20017026-503544.html?tag=mncol;lst;2

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