I Find It Offensive; How About You

[MilesTailsPrower]

Anybody can be a free thinker if they don't let religion effect all of their philosophy. Simple? Unless you lost your individuality and let everyone else think for you, than you are NOT a freethinker

Also anymouse why did they picket your home?

This was in 1984. I was running a Wiccan bulletin board service on my Commodore 64. (Yes. I am that old.) It became the largest BBS in Virginia Beach (in terms of users). That got it attention from the local paper, the Virginian Pilot and Ledger-Star. Then the wackos at CBN started their pickets at my apartment. Including such loving placards as "Burn the Witch."

My wife and I had to take refuge on the Naval Air Station because the police would not clear the pickets (Virginia Beach is the home of Pat Robertson and CBN, they support him far more than a military Wiccan from Michigan), and the threats became personal, and the picketers would physically block us from entering or leaving our apartment.

Gradually, as things did with BBS's back then, mine dropped in popularity when new and different BBS's came along. (One called Tom's Place, a FidoNet porn board, did especially well against mine.)

I eventually pulled down my BBS when I was transferred to Spain. I briefly set it up there, but when I found that Wicca was unlawful in Spain, I pulled it down again, primarily because the Status of Forces Agreement between the USA and Spain would not have protected me as I lived in town, not on the base in Rota.

CBN as christian broadcast network? Sounds like a story. Still i don't see any reason to picket over something like that. Reminds me of Westboro Baptist church with all their pickets.