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I don't understand why it's OK for some religions to be represented and not others.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal yesterday from the Wiccan priestess who was excluded from giving the opening prayer at meetings of the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors.
Cynthia Simpson, who calls herself a witch as do others of the Wiccan faith, sued because the county limits its list of clergy invited to pray at meetings to those of Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions.
She won in the U.S. District Court but lost when the county appealed to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond.
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Simpson is now studying for a master's degree in divinity at a Pennsylvania seminary and hopes to be ordained in the Unitarian Universalist Church. She said that church's beliefs are compatible with the Wiccan faith, which is based on unity with the Earth and the idea that humanity and all things are part of the deity.
I don't understand why it's OK for some religions to be represented and not others.