Witch In Need of Rescue

[KaiAidan]

I came acrossed this in one of my groups, I for one am
horrified at the significance of this article. I certainly hope that
everyone reads this and maybe, by chance, post your feelings about it to the board



Subject: Witch In Need of Rescue

Greetings List Members,

A situation has been brought to my attention, and I am posting it so that
you can see it yourselves. You may decide if it is important or not.

I am not asking you to take action on this matter, but if you feel that
you must, please behave in a responsible manner. This is one of those
situations that can inflame the temper, but cooler minds must prevail.

A Fruit and Vegetable Stand in Florida has placed a life size doll of a
witch on a stake, with wood piled at her feet. They also have a white
figure hanging from a noose nearby. They are claiming it is Halloween fun,
but if they had put any other race or religion on that stake it would be
wrong.

The web page to view the doll and the read the entire situation is
dominick.cc/witchrescue.htm

[KaiAidan]

well this is an old post on my group last oct i believe i put it up to get everyone opion. The diplay was not done out of malaice or anything . I want to know everyones opion but do so pretending you do not see the post below , what is your opioion as you first see it

[KaiAidan]

follow up post from group:

Start Quoted text:
GAIA: This Halloween display has received a LOT of
publicity over the internet over the last few days,
and i have an UPDATE -- a report i'd like everyone to
please pass along to all your groups --

I just spent over an hour on the phone with Kathy,
owner of the produce stand and the woman responsible
for the display; and to be fair, i think it's
important to recognize several things:

1. The display "witch" is only identifiable because
it's wearing a dark dress and has a "broom" beside
her; otherwise she might be just about
anything/anybody in a black dress.

2. There are several different images on display,
including mummies, black cats, skeletons, pumpkins,
jack-o-lanterns, etc etc.

3. this woman, Kathy, has been displaying these
halloween images for years as part of her personal
celebration of the holiday, as well as the kind of
marketing ploys used by most business people at
this time of year.

4. Kathy had absolutely NO knowlege of or intent to
offend any group of people. As far as she was
concerned, it was just another Halloween party
image.

5. Kathy was completely unaware of and horrified
that anyone currently suffers any religious
intolerance
or persecution related to Paganism, let alone that she
might be contributing to it in any way.

6. She has received a great deal of publicity over
this matter, including telephone messages that have
been insulting, obnoxious, even pornographic and
threatening. THAT is *NOT* the way to help educate
people and win them over to understanding,
appreciating and respecting us, folks.

7. As i said, i spoke to her for over an hour -- she
took that much time and effort out of a busy
business -- to discuss the matter at length with me --
and i found her to be respectful, thoughtful,
sensitive
and well intentioned.

8. If every display that had the possibility of
offending someone was removed, there would be NO
displays whatsoever. As Kathy noted, an Egyptian
might take offense at the mummies....etc etc.
It's important to make sure that we are not just
finding, cultivating ways to be offended....