Comments on: Most Bizarre Pagan Smear of the Election Season?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:26:00 +0000

Kudos to Wild Hunt, a grrrreat Indigenist blog!I was saying to my readers that I hope this kind of thing happens more often. Why? Well, it’s like in the movies…where the person in charge is actually misplaced and they freak out on someone thus proving themselves unfit to hold their positions. I figure it like this, the more anti-Indigenist (pagan) these folks become, the more they’ll seem like Westboro Baptist church…this will have the effect of making regular people say to themselves “I don’t want to be that”I say let ‘em get as crazy as they want to be, it’ll just show everyone where the nutjobs are in government.

By: Jason Pitzl-Waters

Jason Pitzl-Waters — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:53:00 +0000

Cara,”I am saying that we all need to be very careful that we are not doing the exact same thing…”It is indeed something I am mindful of. What was particularly abhorrent (and strange) in this instance was that that private citizens, completely uninvolved in this race, were dragged into a political back-and-forth. I don’t think a candidate’s private beliefs are necessarily “fair game” (or, in fact, anything they do in the privacy of their home), but I do think what they (and their co-religionists) do as a result of those beliefs is a valid topic of discussion. Especially if they are going to be granted a large amount of influence over my life. It is, as always, a delicate balance between the public’s right to know about the philosophical underpinnings of their leaders, and the inherent right to religious freedom and privacy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:50:00 +0000

I am not a fan of religious bigotry, in any form. I don’t engage in it and I don’t support it.When Palin, or any elected official, uses their position of power in elected office to hurt Pagans, force them to give up thier religion, or discriminate against them based on thier religion – we need to speak out and do so forcefuly.However – to raise fear and suspicion about a person because of thier religion, and not because they have used thier political office to take any of those harmful actions, is wrong. Then we are the religious bigots. While this attack was ultimately toothless and sad, it does point to a growing willingness by certain liberal Pagans to see an opponent’s adherence (or a family member’s adherence) to a religion as something to exploit.I’m not saying that the blog post does any of this. I am saying that we all need to be very careful that we are not doing the exact same thing that we fear could happen to us from others. Cara

By: datamuse

datamuse — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:33:00 +0000

Not only is it bizarre, but no one noticed it (at least, not west of the Cascades–an important distinction in these parts). I live in Seattle and this is the first I’ve heard of it. (Though I’ll grant you that I stopped listening to the news almost entirely in the last two weeks before the election because I couldn’t take it anymore.)

By: Jaspenelle

Jaspenelle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:43:00 +0000

Love the sarcastic flare the reporter seemed to have in that article (I live in Spokane, conservative yes, but not insane (the Spokesman even did a nice unbias article on my husband and my handfasting.)Seriously though, the constant pandering of the Republicans to the religious right turns my stomach. And people wonder why I can’t support them even though I might agree with their fiscal policies (though those have changed dramatically over the years too.) I am so glad Dino and his cronies lost.