Posted on 09/28/2004 10:23:10 PM PDT by Horatio Gates
Woman Says Boy Targeted Because She Is A Witch
TACOMA, Wash. -- Police are investigating an attack on a middle school student as a possible hate crime because the child's mother says she is a witch, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.
The 11-year-old boy was walking home from Jason Lee Middle School in Tacoma on Monday when a group of children allegedly called him a "Jesus hater", threw rotten apples at him and shouted profanities, said Kathie McKnight, the boy's mother.
McKnight, who said she is a practicing Wiccan, said her faith made her son the target of a hate crime.
"He was calling my son 'Jesus hater' and saying all witches should be burned right before the apples were thrown at him," she said. "So it was very much based on religion."
A Tacoma police spokesman told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News the case is being handled by the department's hate crime specialists
So the term "witch" has nothing to do with wicca?
i'm not buying into that crap... it's about time the moral majority stand and be heard... i'm not religious and i only go to church for weddings and funerals... but i'm sick and tired of the moral decay... the parent asked for it, the kid got it...(true or untrue story)
"She turned me into a newt!
Mark
The concept of "hate-crime" is very Orwellian. I wonder how often it's used to punish crimes against Christians.
"So the term "witch" has nothing to do with wicca?"
Oh, man. Let me get out my Dictionary of Indo-European Roots.
Wiccans familiarly call themselves "witches", whether male or female. Some author (I confess I'm too lazy to look it up) said that "Wicca" comes from "wicce", meaning "to turn [or] to bend" in Anglo-Saxon or some other proto-English dialect. Another author said that theory was BS. It'll be a couple of years of research to prove a connection. You first.
"i'm not buying into that crap... it's about time the moral majority stand and be heard... i'm not religious and i only go to church for weddings and funerals... but i'm sick and tired of the moral decay... the parent asked for it, the kid got it...(true or untrue story)"
Hey, Archie Bunker speaks up--good for you.
Whether or not a self-professed "wedding-or-funeral" Christian buys my story is irrelevant to me.
"My impression from a discussion I heard recently is that Wicca is just old-fashioned paganism revived---nature worship."
Actually, we follow (not worship) a god and goddess of our choosing (or do they choose us?), and we see their presence in nature. We do not worship nature per se.
There are white Wiccans like there are white, uh, lawyers, I guess--those sworn to seeking out justice for the downtrodden and always fighting the good fight.
Then there are those Wiccans (like me), who are more pragmatic.
I'm with you on that. I think the term religion is a little too broad sometimes. I prefer "faith."
Consider me set straight. Thanks for the lesson and I hope you don't mind if I say a prayer or two for you :)
May I ask your opinion of this kids story? I practised witchcraft in the 70's but am now a Born-Again. Having been on both sides, I, personally, don't buy it.
That was more of a general question not a challenge regarding witches and you covered it.
Yeah, I knew that was a simplification---just trying to give a quick snapshot impression for those who have no concept of Wicca at all.
...like there are white, uh, lawyers, I guess
LOL! We know which realm they belong to, and which god they serve!
...there are those Wiccans (like me), who are more pragmatic"
Uh, oh. The priest who gave the discussion viewed the more "pragmatic" forms as dangerous to the soul.
Tacoma has never struck me as a place where one would expect to encounter apple tossing gangs of young Christians shouting "Jesus Hater" at Wiccans.
It doesn't ring true to me, either. I smell a rat.
Naaah, pray away--the more the merrier, right?
Besides, if hell does exist, being a pawnbroker and a witch, I should at least qualify for branch manager status!
G'nite.
Except when we press them to death for refusing to plead...
"May I ask your opinion of this kids story? I practised witchcraft in the 70's but am now a Born-Again. Having been on both sides, I, personally, don't buy it."
Uhh, the story's entirely possible, I guess, but then again (as I'm sure you know), many Wiccans live their lives as a long cry for help. Might not be that much different than an, uh, African-American painting swastikas on their own car to draw attention.
Your guess is as good as mine. G'nite.
Goodnight. :-)
Considering Tacoma has a synagogue which the Washingtom DC sniper (aka John Mohammed) used for target practice, don't count anything out when it comes to Tacoma :)
"...mm-more w-weight"
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