Christians Escalate Harassment Of Pagan Festivals – Non-Fiction

During Witchfest, held annually in mid-July, dozens of aggressive Christian preachers stormed into the gathering of pagans and witches celebrating their community. Witchfest is a nonprofit organization that raises funds for various pagan groups and strengthens community bonds. Some members of conservative Christian groups and street preachers always make it into pagan celebrations. Still, their numbers were far larger this year than expected, with around thirty evangelists showing up.

 

The organizer of WitchsFest USA, Starr RavenHawk, was extremely upset by the disruptions. A Christian group gathered on a street corner near one of the workshop stalls around 10.00 AM, later entering the event space itself. Many vendors left early, feeling threatened. The group began preaching to the attendees to rectify their ways. RavenHawk called the police, but according to her, the cops did nothing.

 

She said, “(The officers) treated us as if we were invading the Christians’ space, as if they had more rights than we do.”

 

RavenHawk said that the people that came this year were not just protesting.

 

“They are collectively at war with us. They made that clear.”

 

Attendees at an Atlanta Mystic South conference were also harassed similarly on the same weekend as this year’s Witchfest.