Who Are Today's 'Witches'?


	Who Are Today's 'Witches'?

wiccantexan

10-6-2007 1:51 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0b1ed5af-81a1-47e6-8dcb-2e8fefde8eea/22E73D0C-24C0-4444-8768-DB88DE777A68/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19143" href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19143" style="font-size: 11px;">www.firstamendmentcenter.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19143">The First Amendment-protected freedoms of speech, religion and association formed the context for the program, "Today's Witches: Revisiting <I>The Crucible,</I> A Conversation on the Power of Fear." Five panelists from a variety of backgrounds discussed why society may perceive them and others as "witches," in the sense of demonized "others," because of their religious and political beliefs, ethnicity or sexual orientation.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19143"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="black"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" color="black">Opening the program, First Amendment Center founder John Seigenthaler told the audience that throughout history many society members, perhaps including himself, had been considered "witches," from Federalists, Republicans, Democrats and Whigs to Baptists, Jews, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, African-Americans, suffragists, anti-war protesters, Muslims, liberals, gays, fundamentalist Christians and others.</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/22E73D0C-24C0-4444-8768-DB88DE777A68/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>