Planned festival of pagans draws anger in plains town

[davidinalameda]

http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1310319&secid=1

The small eastern plains town of Ramah is simmering with religious tension after a pagan group rented out the American Legion Hall for a festival on Halloween weekend.

A Baptist minister tried to rally the town board to stop the gathering, and one woman is circulating a petition demanding that the festival be stopped.

Other residents call the situation a witch hunt targeting those with different beliefs and are sarcastically referring to their town as “Salem.”

[Southpaw Bookworm]

1. These people are so full of hate

This group is having the festival to raise money for St. Jude's. How can you be opposed to that? What is their religious institution doing to support such worthy organizations?

The more I know people, the more I like my cat.

[Freedom Socialist]

2. Hopefully this minister gets "haunted" to death...

Many patients may die if he succeeds.

[atommom]

3. It's people like this that have convinced me that a humanist philosophy

is the more "moral" path...

Doucette-Johnson said some residents thought the pagans would slaughter animals and one man said he didn’t want the pagans pushing their religion down his throat. He then asked whether she would be open to a Ku Klux Klan meeting in her front yard, she said.

“That to me was like a threat,” Doucette-Johnson said.

The same man also said he could organize a cattle drive through the area to ruin the festival, Allen said.

[sakabatou]

4. Whenever the ALH is used for christian gatherings

The pagans should protest. It's only fair.