Boy, those superstitious Afri -- um, Americans, are at it again.
In a case reminiscent of the Salem Witch trials, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma today filed a federal lawsuit charging that school officials violated 15-year-old Brandi Blackbear's rights when they accused her of casting a hex that resulted in a teacher's illness.Gee, what are the odds that the accusers are Christians? After all, it does warn against witchcraft in the Bible so witchcraft must actually exist, right? Right?"These outlandish accusations have made Brandi Blackbear's life at school unbearable," said Joann Bell, Executive Director of the ACLU of Oklahoma. "I for one would like to see the so-called evidence this school has that a 15-year-old girl made a grown man sick by casting a magic spell."
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I'm trying to put together a rough list of the most primitive, superstitious, theocratic states in the US.
So far, I've got
Oklahoma
Texas
South Carolina
Wyoming and Idaho seem more like neocon/reactionary states (separatist/white supremacist) without as much religion, but I don't think I'd want to live in either place.
Alaska might belong in there somewhere as well.
What all of these places seem to have in common is that things go on there that the residents take for granted, as though the states were actually outside the purview of the US as a whole. That the prevailing "wisdom" in these states believe, on some level, that they are independent nations unto themselves.
That's a pretty accurate list. :-(
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