Grabbed from the Wild Hunt. I often forget that there is a real element of danger to the religion I practice – that any neopagan practices – and the danger comes not from ourselves but from those around us. Certainly I have had to stand up to family, but because I do not have children and because I am self-employed there’s relatively little that people can do to me these days. Even so, I did experience hostility from some corners in the past. All were dealt with, efficiently, and in one case where normally bigotry would run rife – at the local phone company I worked for briefly – I found myself supported by the most religiously conservative of the staff members, thanks to another out witch who used her outness abusively.
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