I read about this on Hecate’s Blog … who read about it at The Wild Hunt. I share it with you here.
Rita Moran is the Chair of the Kennebec County Democratic Committee in Maine. She runs a local bookstore, Apple Valley Books, that sells Pagan books
Recently, The Christian Civic League has put up a web page with information about Moran’s political postition and her religious beliefs, including Moran’s address, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
They are quoted as saying
“Perhaps most disturbing of all is the involvement of Moran’s Apple Valley Books store in promoting her pagan-worshipping beliefs to Maine’s children.”
These same people claim that they work:
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to encourage all the people of Maine in good citizenship
- to elect honest and competent public officials
- to enact good laws and provide for their impartial enforcement
Good citizenship?!?!?!?
Impartiality?!?!?!?
They also claim to believe in ethical guidelines such as :
The power to live in the light means the freedom to live openly and honestly in the sight of God and one another. No darkness, no deceit, no hiddenness, no motivations by fear, no ulterior agendas.
and
The power to love enemies means our recognition that those who oppose our persons or positions, in any capacity, nonetheless deserve respect as image-bearers of God. It also means that we renounce any dehumanizing language or actions in our political partisanships
No ulterior agendas?
Respecting even those that disagree?
You know the movie The Princess Bride? The line …. “you keep using that word .. I do not think it means what you think it means” ….. well it comes to mind right about now.
Anyway ….. this post is not about hypocrisy. It is about asking for your assistance to a pagan who was guilty of nothing more than living an honest open life and earning a fair and honest wage doing something she loves.
Since that time donations to the Democratic comittee and sales in her bookstore have suffered. Their website states that they will order ”just about any book in print” and will even gift wrap for no charge upon request.
Blessings
Mama Kelly
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