Claiming you “see the point” of people who have literally claimed to be planning on killing me is a death threat, though as I said a rather mincing one. If I said the same to you you’d be in tears surely.

Let me guess, your friend Deirdre is still feverishly searching Red Alerts for something to cry about?

You think THAT’S a death threat??!! Oh dear . . . if I call you a silly dweebie, you’ll need therapy!

You could at least get your personal facts straight. How is anyone to accord you any professionalism when you can’t even accurately report the gender of the person who’s trying to kill you?

Do try to do better, eh?

You know, I haven’t been to TWH since I was a member of PaganSpace, way back when… it seemed like another PaganSpace type place to me, so I didn’t bother with it (figured one was enough, right?)

But it never ceases to amaze me how firmly so many Pagans have their blinders glued in place… why do they blatantly refuse to see the predators in their midst? It was the same thing at PaganSpace, and it scares the hell out of me that the same thing goes on at Pagan festivals everywhere. I’ve been to one or two of them, and folks just let their kids run wild, not really paying attention to where they are or what they’re doing. That, combined with their unwillingness to believe that any “Pagan” attending could potentially be there to prey on their children is a recipe for disaster. That anyone would so willingly and blindly put their child in that kind of danger is just disgusting.

Still, you would think that pagans of all people would cherish and value the concept of limited government and individual liberties. How adept can they be as magical practitioners if they think it is essential that they have the protection of big government looking over their shoulders and making sure everybody toes the line?

Do they even get the concept of republican (small r) principles, of majority rule concurrent with guaranteed minority protections, of government as a SERVANT of the people as opposed to being a tool of special interests to lord it over everybody else? Of course, they see themselves as a special interest, and they want the “protection” that status conveys. It’s sickening.

In the meantime, to them the burning issues of the day revolves around nativity scenes in public squares and public prayers to Jesus in obscure city council meetings. And I’m supposed to march hand in hand with them in solidarity while they proceed to make obnoxious asses out of themselves and everything they pretend to stand for in the eyes of the majority of Americans, where they make up at best one percent of the population, and most of them are poseurs.

And they call Sarah Palin a wingnut. They act like they’re scared to death of a woman who would probably be surprised to learn of their existence. What a joke.

Fair game, right Lefties? You started it.

Yes, there are some Christian bigots and some of them might even get violent, but like you, I’d much rather live next door to a Christian who believed strongly in the 1st and 2nd amendments than a pagan who had a chip on their shoulder about Christians and thinks guns are evil. I grew up in a household that was hellfire and brimstone, evangelical Christian. When I stopped going to church at age 13 and came out as pagan a few years later, no one followed me home, beat me up or burned a cross on my lawn.

If liberals really believe that the Sarah Palins of the world are the problem, then I’m truly afraid for the state of our nation.

Thanks for pointing that out.