WV: Wiccan Couple Harassed, Children Taken Away
Monday August 2, 2004
According to a West Virginia couple, they have been harassed and even had their children taken away for six months because they are Wiccans, not Christians. They've filed a lawsuit to stop it from happening again, but Christian extremists aren't known for obeying court orders.
The Charleston Daily Mail reports:
Their [Sarah Albright and Nathan Malick III] suit claims that people in the county falsely accused them of practicing witchcraft and Satanism. By 2001, a department social worker in Nicholas County gave them $300 and urged them to leave the county, according to their suit. They took the money and moved to Clay County, where they say a social worker threatened to take their kids if they didn't get jobs closer to home.
According to the Charleston Gazette:
On one occasion, DHHR officials and a State Police trooper were called to investigate an allegation that the couple had killed their youngest child in a sacrifice and were carrying the boy’s body with them. A later DHHR visit came from another false report that the couple’s children had been sacrificed. An emergency DHHR petition was filed and the couple’s children were taken away, causing Albright to be hospitalized in October 2003, according to the lawsuit.
Remember, though, it is Christians who face continual persecution in America, not Wiccans or anyone else. Christians are the ones who suffer for their beliefs. Christians are the ones who need special protection. Wiccan couples like this... well, they’re probably just getting what they deserve. They aren’t persecuted Christians, so how can you trust them in the first place?
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Comments
What the hell kind of absurd nonsense is this? With Evangelical Christian nutcases runing the country, Christins are the ones who are persecuted? Doesn’t About.com have any controlls for quality or accuracy? This really makes me worry about the value of the rest of the acticles on this website…
Beth, it’s called “sarcasm.”
I sit here still dumbstruck at that last paragraph, the sarcasm is not easily seen as many actually do feel this way.
True, and I don’t use sarcasm like that very often… but just how likely is it that an atheism guide would write something like that and actually mean it? Sometimes, a bit of sarcasm can highlight just how ridiculous a position or belief is.
Sarcasm or not, statements like that have been have been taken as fact. Pagans and Wiccans alike have been prosecuted when statements have been taken out of context.
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