What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at ...> 
wrote:
>
> montims:
> And still in many places it isn't. In
> many areas of the United States, for example, people can legally 
have their
> children taken away from them if they are pagan; pagans and/or 
their houses
> and property are attacked; and pagans can lose their jobs if their 
religious
> preference is known...
> 
> Amanda replies:
> 
> I gotta know. Please provide support for these three assertions. I 
want to
> see a legal removal of a child from a parent *primarily* on 
religious
> grounds. For the other two, I believe it is true that people, their 
property
> and jobs, are still attacked on the basis of their beliefs, but not 
legally.
> It's sad and can be tragic if that happens, but it is not legal.
> 
> ~Amanda
> 
> 
> 

Amanda, I specifically remember reading about a case where the 
children were removed because the parents were pagans...I'll look 
that up for you when I have a moment.

The fact is that pagans/wiccans of all stripes and colors are still 
very misunderstood. Most people still believe that they are 
practicing evil magick, or that they do animal or child sacrifice.
At the very best, someone is seen as very strange if they state that 
they are a pagan or wiccan.

Susan