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Posthumous pardons sought for condemned witches
Petitioners seek help from justice secretary
Justice officials in the United Kingdom are being urged by petitioners to issue a blanket pardon to all of those individuals executed on allegations of witchcraft over the centuries. The petition is being assembled by the family-run Angels Fancy Dress costume company, which is directing its request to Justice Secretary Jack Straw, according to a report in the London Times. "We decided to launch this initiative because we felt that it was time that the sinister associations held by a minority of people regarding witches and Halloween were tackled head-on �?children and adults should be permitted to dress-up as witches without being stigmatized," said Emma Angel, head of the company. |
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"issue a blanket pardon to all of those individuals executed on allegations of witchcraft over the centuries" Uh......yeah... What are they proposing that the people be pardoned for? Are they suppose to be pardoned because they were tortured? Or are they suppose to be pardoned because they were killed? What were the executed guilty of? The Catholic Church issued a blanket apology sometime back in the late 80's( or early 90's) for their persecution and execution of those who practiced witchcraft, and those that they accused of doing it. Since the Church was one of the main perpetrators, and driving force behind the persecutions and executions; I thought it was a step toward destigmatizing witches and witchcraft. Now somebody wants to turn around and pardon the witches? With friends like that, who...... Blessed be |
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I was thinking the same thing myself...it would be better for them to admit they were WRONG all along instead of constructing some hollow pardon. |
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the question is do they feel they were wrong, ? i see a pardon as the continuation of a bigotry. jerry |
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let it go already! the persecutors are dead and the persecuted are dead. if you can't get over it after this long, you have bigger problems that you realize. |
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sinister porpoise, Most Pagans and/or Witches do let it go; until someone like this costume company does something like this. By their saying, "..issue a blanket pardon to all of those individuals executed on allegations of witchcraft over the centuries" they are bolstering the stigma and, as jerry said, continuing the bigotry to present day. And, it is that present day bigotry that we are addressing. I consider dealing with present day bigotry, in any form, something that is important and not something you get over. Blessed be |
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then i guess it's not really letting it go. who cares what these buttwads think? |
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yeah or until some idiot like the pastor from Kenya that came to purge Alaska of witches and his supposed ´witch hunts´ that smack of the same things that have passed in history...after all he wanted a woman murdered or driven from her home because he labeled her a witch and claimed she was causing car accidents. |
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Oh boy, I hope you are kidding but somehow I doubt it. |
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