Texas: Wiccan Accuses Pastor of Harassment

August 3, 2003

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.caller.com/ccct/state_texas_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_876_2156428,00.html

On August 3, 2003 The Associated Press reported that "a self-proclaimed witch in the eastern Hill Country is accusing a Christian pastor of leading a harassment campaign aimed at ruining her business and driving her out of the region... Margie Allen, who practices the pagan religion Wicca, also charges that the Llano County sheriff's office with refusing to respond to her complaints and that Rev. Joann Jackson had organized an aggressive effort to force her out of the area... The charges have attracted the attention of the FBI, which says it will investigate the claims by Allen, a consignment shop owner, as a possible civil rights case."