I call your attitude "swallowing a camel and straining at a gnat".
Wiccans - who actually practice whatever it is they practice - are a few thousand, maybe? And it's an invented crock of nonsense anyway. No one is advocating preventing this supposed witch from doing anything legal. But there is no reason why any elected body of people (or unelected for that matter) should be forced to listen to her. If she wants a platform, she should either find a group of people who want to listen to her by hiring her own hall, getting her own coven, getting her own soapbox and taking it to the town square, or putting an ad in the paper and having Wiccan gatherings at her house.
If, for instance, my elderly mother had been Wiccan, and wanted me to attend a Wiccan ceremony, I would probably have attended with the same politeness as I attended her church. That is an entirely different situation than a Board meeting of people who decide they'd like the refreshment of a prayer before work. Why should anyone of any religion be allowed to force themselves on people who don't want to listen, any more than you or I should be forced to attend any religious (or other) ceremony we don't wish to attend?
Well lj, if these Folks are so needy of "refreshment" at work, then perhaps working in the church of their choice might be a better calling, than City Government.
As such, it's a Board of Supervisors meeting, not a Sunday School. If you want to limit the opening prayers to one Religion, then eliminate the opening prayersall together, and let those that need "refreshment" get it on their own time...
They number in the millions. There is a naming problem in that many who are pagan may be lumped together as Wiccan by others although they do not call themselves Wiccan.
And it's an invented crock of nonsense anyway.
That's what I think about ALL religions, although I don't say it in such disrespectful language.
Why should anyone of any religion be allowed to force themselves on people who don't want to listen, any more than you or I should be forced to attend any religious (or other) ceremony we don't wish to attend?
Reminds me of prayer at a football game or graduation. Wait, the Christians want that to happen.