Witch gets ‘burned’ by Supreme Court
A practicing witch who sought to have her prayers heard at government meetings in a Richmond, Va., suburb had no magic before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Justices rejected an appeal by Cyndi Simpson, a Wiccan priestess and member of the Broom Riders Association, who wanted to offer a generalized prayer to the “creator of the universe” in Chesterfield County, Va.“I wasn’t going to talk about the goddess,” Simpson said previous to today’s decision. “I was going to call the elements, maybe offer up an invocation to the highest being.”
Simpson had argued that Christians and members of other faiths were allowed to provide invocations before county meetings, but she was being excluded because of her pagan, polytheistic beliefs.
Wicca is regarded as a natural religion, “grounded in the earth.” Followers of its many different forms generally believe all living things, as well as stars, planets and rocks, have a spirit.
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