Witch gets 'burned' by Supreme Court

WorldNetDaily ^ | 10/11/05 | Joe Kovacs

[NRA1995]

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."

[NRA1995]

The Wicked Witch Of Richmond

[xcamel]

posted yesterday

see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500813/posts

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Free exercize of religion? My knee-jerk response is that we should defend her Constitutional right to express herself in a public place. Freedom falls like dominoes. And it can expand like dominoes, too.

[NRA1995]

Sorry, didn't show up on my search

[paudio]

I don't see why she cannot do that in public. The government should recognize more ideas as religion, and start to treat all religions the same. It includes atheism.

[TrailofTears]

I will stand up for her rights when she stands up for our rights as christians to access the public arena. We are always reaching accross the line and helping others keep their rights it is time to make them come accross the line and help us keep ours.

[linkinpunk]

Thanks for the post.

I, like many others, missed it yesterday.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I believe she was setting a trap for us. The trap is for us to slap her around, give her publicity, make a martyr of her, and display hyocracy on our Constitutional beliefs. Don't know about you. I'm not falling for it.

[Maximus of Texas]

This case reminds me of a famous witch trail that took place years ago. The case was pleaded by a crowd before the magistrate. A transcript of the proceedings is below:

The Witch: I'm not a witch I'm not a witch!
Magistrate: But you a dressed like one
The Witch: They dressed me up like this!
Crowd: we didn't! We didn't...
The Witch: And this isn't my nose. It's a false one.
Magistrate: [lifts up her false nose] Well?
Peasant 1: Well, we did do the nose.
Magistrate: The nose?
Peasant 1: And the hat, but she is a witch!
Crowd: Yeah Burn her burn her!
Magistrate: Did you dress her up like this?
Peasant 1: No!
Peasant 3, Peasant 2: No!
Peasant 3: No!
Peasant 1: No!
Peasant 3, Peasant 2: No!
Peasant 1: Yes!
Peasant 2: Yes!
Peasant 1: Yeah a Bit
Peasant 3: A bit!
Peasant 1, Peasant 2: A bit!
Peasant 2: a bit
Peasant 1: But she has got a wart!

Magistrate: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Magistrate: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Magistrate: And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Peasant 1: More witches.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Magistrate: Good. Now, why do witches burn?
Peasant 3: ...because they're made of... wood?
Magistrate: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
Magistrate: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Magistrate: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw her into the pond!
Magistrate: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
Wise Man in Crowd: A Duck.
Magistrate: ...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Magistrate: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch!


Unfortunately, the women weighed less than the duck and was burned.

[Grut]

Not mentioning Jesus makes it OK for the 'approved' religions to give the invocation? I suspect the Wiccans could be relied on not to mention Jesus either.... Sorry, but I'm with the witches on this one.

[mistress_of_tantra]

Classic Monty Python!!! I loved it and enjoyed the laugh! haha thank you.

[Maximus of Texas]

What????? That wasn't a transcript of a real case???!?!?!

:)

[mistress_of_tantra]

ROFLMAO!!!!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"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."

Real life is funnier than fiction sometimes.

Broom Riders Association, ROTFLMAO, oh the jokes I could make. But, the mod squad would get me.

[blackie]

Broom Riders Association, unite!

Watch those splinters ~ Bump!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Watch those splinters, indeed.

[blackie]

I'm a great splinter remover ~ I don't think I would want to tackle the private parts of a witch, though. >:-}

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Splinters in the nether-regions is why the witchy was so bitchy.

[blackie]

~~ and makes 'em so irritable and twitchy.