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[theweaselking]

Wiccan in South Carolina objects to town council praying specifically to Jesus to guide their decisions. When she tells them she's uncomfortable, she's informed that she doesn't have the right to speak unless she remains and participates in the prayer. She sues. She wins. The result?

"Her home has been vandalized nine times. Hoodlums have killed her cat and hanged its gutted body. Someone put sand in the gas tank of her truck. Townspeople have ostracized her."

And people wonder why people from South Carolina are known all over the continent as ignorant hicks. Anyone else see "Wrong Turn"?

Comments

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I always wonder about people who do stuff like that. What are they so afraid of? Do they think Jesus won't hear if they don't call him by name?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't object tot he idea of opening with a prayer, if that's your thing, and I really can see how, in an ignorant white trash community, the concept of somebody NOT being Christian might be something they'd never thought about before.

The thing that drives me batshit are the people who ignore the both constitutional prohibitions on state-sponsored religion AND the base tenets of their supposed religion, all at once, for no reason that they could ever articulate.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

I do think that fear is part of it. Maybe all of it.