Woman not allowed to drop off pagan books at Asheville area school

[icymist]

WEAVERVILLE — The Buncombe County school system has drawn the ire of a Pagan parent again.

Ginger Strivelli delivered on her promise to bring Pagan spell books to North Windy Ridge after the intermediate school made Bibles available in December. She said school officials said they would allow for the availability of her materials, just as they did the Bibles from a local group of Gideons International.

When Strivelli brought the Pagan books to the school Wednesday morning, she said she was told “a new policy is being crafted.”
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20120105/NEWS/301050020/1001/NEWS

[Mojorabbit]

1. Not one bit surprised but glad the hyprocrisy is out in the open. nt

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

2. I dislike the "It's ok " people who then say 'no' when it is not their religion being represented

I have known several during my academic career and they each irked me to no end.

My graduate advisor thought that every student should go to chapel at least once a week if not every day. He would make that argument all the time, even knowing that I was a pagan and that I successfully knocked his arguments down each time. Some thought he just liked arguing with me, but there were others that could feel his desire to 'convert' me. I finally figured out the fastest way to shut him up was to tell him that it was fine with me as long as it changed every week to a different religion and not just different Christian sects.

I’m not surprised that the school initially said that they would welcome the pagan books but changed their minds the moment said books showed up at their door. It is easy to claim inclusivity but implementing it is a different matter.

They make my head hurt...I think it's time to take more meds.