Facing Discrimination, Wicca Pagan Followers Learn to Turn the Other Cheek

November 3, 2007

Author: ANNIE NELSON

Source: Columbia Tribune

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Nov/20071103Feat001.asp

That members of local Wicca and pagan groups made a point to introduce themselves as regular people during a discussion panel Sunday - "Which Witch is This?" - was noted and quickly brought up by the audience.

"I moved here from Eugene, Ore., where paganism is very accepted. When you introduced yourselves, you all said, ‘I’m a normal person,’ " a woman said, asking whether pagans experienced discrimination in the Midwest.