Don't stereotype witches!

[varwoche]

Good old western WA state, bastion of open-minded liberal thinking...

A Washington state school district is canceling its annual Halloween celebration, and the explanation has some parents baffled.
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The district said Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to real witches.

"Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.

The Wiccan, or Pagan, religion is said to be growing in the United States and there are Wiccan groups in Puyallup.

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[Cleon]

Well, I don't suppose that's any more ridiculous than the big controversy here in Georgia.

What's the controversy, you ask? Well, some of our good Christian towns are trying to move Halloween to Saturday because they don't want a holiday for "celebrating the Devil" to be "on the Lord's Sabbath."

No, I'm not making this up. Count your blessings, Washington denizens. Count your blessings.

 

[RSLancastr]

Most of the Wiccans I know, including my ex-wife, take no offense at the stereotypical Halloween witch.