Comments on: Is It Really About the Paganism? http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/08/is-it-really-about-paganism.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:15:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Pollard http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/08/is-it-really-about-paganism.html/comment-page-1#comment-1070 David Pollard Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:10:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/08/is-it-really-about-the-paganism.html#comment-1070 All the lack of legal insight from Witchvox readers means is that becoming Pagan doesn't automatically make you a 1st Amendment legal scholar. Give our current cultural milieu, it's hardly surprising that many Pagans internalize the oppression of the far more vocal and powerful Christian culture. All the lack of legal insight from Witchvox readers means is that becoming Pagan doesn’t automatically make you a 1st Amendment legal scholar. Give our current cultural milieu, it’s hardly surprising that many Pagans internalize the oppression of the far more vocal and powerful Christian culture.

]]> By: Lupa http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/08/is-it-really-about-paganism.html/comment-page-1#comment-1069 Lupa Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:45:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/08/is-it-really-about-the-paganism.html#comment-1069 IMO, it's just another case of the mainstream taking what they see as Other and turning it against someone who may be a perfectly good parent. There is nothing in kink that dictates that you must expose your child to sexuality more than, say, a vanilla parent. And I think it's pretty obvious (to me at least) that non-straight people have the same potential to be good parents as straight people. The problem is that you do have people who see the Other as automatically delinquent and inferior and therefore not compatible with healthy parenthood.<br/><br/>IMO, Mommy going to a coven ritual instead of church is no different than Kid accidentally walking in on Mommy having sex with a collar on vs. Kid walking in on vanilla sex. IMO, it’s just another case of the mainstream taking what they see as Other and turning it against someone who may be a perfectly good parent. There is nothing in kink that dictates that you must expose your child to sexuality more than, say, a vanilla parent. And I think it’s pretty obvious (to me at least) that non-straight people have the same potential to be good parents as straight people. The problem is that you do have people who see the Other as automatically delinquent and inferior and therefore not compatible with healthy parenthood.

IMO, Mommy going to a coven ritual instead of church is no different than Kid accidentally walking in on Mommy having sex with a collar on vs. Kid walking in on vanilla sex.

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