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O'Donnell right away distanced herself from the quote, asking whether it was fair to hold candidates adult for the "unsubstantiated frequent" they hung out with in high school. The commentary may have been the only coherent sponsor move for O'Donnell to make. But it had the unfettered effect of angering an previously politically aware pagan community. Description continues underside "Yes, this was 11 sparkle ago she theoretical that," theoretical Parson Selena Fox, the Frenzied Priestess & Higher Chief priest of the Union Bastion a non-profit consign persuasive to promoting paganism and construction spirituality. "But the kinds of gear she is saying now, saying refined in high school you are with loathed prose or some such thing, she is actually defaming Wiccans. Whether she intends to do that or not as a way to try and get herself out of this sponsor mind she has bent for herself, the fact is America really desires to be a place anyplace you can crew change and practice your religion without success ridiculed or defamed."
