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To: LindyBill who wrote (79587)	10/22/2004 4:28:40 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) of 794001

John Carlson - KVI talk radio - was ALL over this today, and there are lots of angry folks about this...Probably would be smart for all of us to check with our local school districts to see what other mischief is going on.... Here's a bit of the real reason Puyallup shut down Halloween... "Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that," said Hansen. The Wiccan, or Pagan, religion is growing in the U.S. and there are Wiccan groups in Puyallup. Number eight on the district's guidelines related to holidays and celebrations reads as follows: "Use of derogatory stereotypes is prohibited, such as the traditional image of a witch, which is offensive to members of the Wiccan religion." "I do lots of things that are not revolving around wearing a black outfit and stirring a cauldron," said Wiccan Priestess Cheryl Sulyma-Masson in an interview with ABC News where she explained that Wiccans (or Pagan Clergy) celebrate nature, not Satan. A Puyallup School District internal email dating from October 2000 warns that "the Wiccan religion is a bona fide religion under the law, and its followers are entitled to all the protections afforded more mainstream religions. Building administrators should not tolerate such inappropriate stereotyping (images such as Witches on flying brooms, stirring cauldrons, casting spells, or with long noses and pointed hats) and instead address them as you would hurtful stereotypes of any other minority."

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