This Week’s Letters to the Editor, or, What’s Wrong with You People and Please Never Write Us Again

Wicca Priestess Leigha LaFleur passes ginger lemonade during a ceremony to “amplify energy” to Bernie Sanders, on Friday, May 13 Doug Brown

RE: “Magick Ritual Planned Tonight in Portland to ‘Raise the Energy’ for Bernie Sanders” [Blogtown, May 13], Megan Burbank’s post about an event in Woodstock Park encouraging participants to focus their energy “for the most positive, most beneficial, most heartful outcome to the upcoming primary and national election cycle,” and “Portland Wiccans for Bernie” [Blogtown, May 14], Doug Brown’s story about attending said event. “It’s now time to dance,” Brown wrote of one of the rituals. “We hold hands and walk around the rug, chanting ‘Be the Bern’ over and over again.”

Many pagan/heathen/alternative religion Bernie supporters are doing magical work on his behalf, in addition to mundane support like phone banking, canvassing, and rallies… it’s all the same. Stop mocking alternative spiritualties. I know many Christians who are “praying” for Bernie as hard as any work we might do on his behalf.

Krystal