Please check out this article!!

[ilovecrayons2]

http://www.gazette.com/articles/says_27689___article.html/sanchez_witch.html

Not only is it sad, but the article itself is just poorly written.  It is awesome that they even tried doing an article on the new pagan/wiccan/witchcraft group that has hit Colorado Springs, but get the facts straight and represent what was set out.  There's no goal even.

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Comments

[clarsa]

Many years ago, when I was P.R. chair of the Denver Area Wiccan Network (now disbanded), we had a lot of reports of serious prejudicial treatment against Wiccans and neo-pagans in the CSpgs area. Families lost custody of children. People were evicted or lost jobs. One woman was assaulted and crosses were carved into her hands.

It's easy to forget how backward and dangerous some places can be, even larger cities. Any religion that teaches that others are going to hell is ultimately supporting violence. And one that advocates surrendering your will to an external power and letting him be responsible for deciding your actions is creating a crucible for some very ugly behavior indeed.

[kyda_silver]

I agree. This article has been poorly written. I am not sure what the point of it even was? Yay, there is a pagan group here, that's awesome, but it didn't really give any more info on the group. It was quite tasteless if you ask me, and the comments (though I didn't go through all 5 pages worth) had very little to do with the article itself. Part of me wonders what it would be like if the local community knew just how many witches there are in their midst?