Kathy Lee and her religious intolerant moment. . .

So there is Kathy Lee and there is a wedding and there is a quote. “The nasty, bad pagans”. If you want to see it for yourself go here - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25367004#25368216
than fast forward to 4:25 or so (that’s 4 minutes and 25 seconds into the video) and it’s there in all the glory that TV brings us. All the glory of a bad, ignorant TV personality. Shame - I used to like Kathy Lee.

So what is a Pagan to think??
I began thinking of all the media spots where pagan-like things have been bashed. I couldn’t think of many beyond Blair Witch. I think it’s funny that the movie Blair Witch they had to put a disclaimer that they weren’t bashing Witches as a rule and it was all fun and games. Should I even go there yet how Witches are a small percent of Pagans? I do wonder why an entire movie has to cater to a small percentage and one lousy TV hostess is allowed to go beyond Witches and bash a plethora of religions in one single spit out sentence. I wondered if she even knew the religions she was encompassing with that word. I wondered if she has a clue that Native Americans commonly consider themselves pagan and many that do not still rub shoulders with pagans all the time?
All fun and games till an eye gets poked out. So would this be Kathy Lee poking an eye out or at least an attempt?? She did spit the word pagan out like it was a horrible inconvenience that she even had to read the word and an absolute chore to having to say it out loud. I am thinking that she is clueless. And by her rules of Christianity shouldn’t there be an eye for an eye? But if I was a TV hostess and said “the nasty, bad Christians” then I would have been banned forever. Or at least have caused a pretty big splash. Besides those are her religions rules, not mine. No, mine I have to accept that an eye for an eye only makes the world blind and that karma comes back in forms, when bashing others, that are not all that pleasant. Besides it’s not Christians that I think are bad or nasty. It’s ignorance. Ignorance prevails again in the mainstream of out society!
With the fourth coming up it makes me just so proud to be an American! “One Nation under God” and all that jazz. So not to sidetrack I am proud to be an American, really. I have the freedom to fight for my religion even if I don’t have the TV power to do much. I also have the free speaking that I can say “One Nation under the Goddess Earth”. It chafes though that those that not only don’t have to worry about gas prices because they don’t even pump the gas into their vehicles also have the TV time and the comfort that no one will be saying “the nasty, bad Christians” on public television in retaliation. The cookie cutter rich. But I am sidetracking again.
What’s a poor pagan to do? Or anyone for that matter that doesn’t like to hear the bashing of religion (or non-religion). I suppose she is politically correct enough not to have said that Atheists are nasty or bad. Or Muslims. Oh boy, that would’ve been fun! No, just us nasty pagans in our nasty little homes that do our bad things. But alas, no one really knows what us nasty pagans do or really who we are. So would writing to say that she’s full of shit do any good? By all means if you feel the need, please do. Even if it a line or two with the title in the e-mail of Kathy Lee and Nasty, bad pagans. It may make a dent. I did - Here’s the e-mail - today@nbc.com . I wrote just to blow off some steam so I’m not stewing over this for a week. I have enough to stew over. I don’t need Kathy Lee to pee in my Cheerios too.
Would a letter campaign really make a difference? What really brings down ignorance in a bad, nasty TV hostess??  I don’t expect anything more than the form letter that I got back. I don’t expect an apology from her. Though I did ask if she would have the audacity to call a pagan nasty to their face. No - I am not sure what would the best thing for a pagan or religious tolerant person is to do. Show our numbers. Now that would be nice. If there were letters from thousands of people then that would be something. It would take some numbers to care for that to happen though.

In the meantime all I have is this blog, no TV time. Just my nasty, bad religion in my nasty, bad life. I wonder if it would make me feel better to go sacrifice a child now?? Maybe I should surf the web to find out how I can save my soul for only a down payment of $99 and monthly installments of $25 a month. Or maybe I should just sit back and be happy that even though I do have to worry about gas prices and I don’t have a TV spot (that’s my daughters job) I am working for tolerance and education myself. Even if I’m a bad, nasty pagan.
Oh as a legal note children don’t like it when you ask them if they think of themselves as nasty, bad pagans. They just don’t take it very well.