When Will The White House Have Witchcraft Advisors?

From an exclusive at Family Security Matters:

... The Founding Fathers were mostly religious men, but they saw their religion as a private matter, rather than one to inflict upon the society - as had happened in Europe and also in New England. The Puritan settlers to America had been infected with the same religious intolerance that had caused numerous innocents to be executed for the impossible crimes of witchcraft.
 
Increase Mather (1639 – 1723) spent much of his time gathering “evidence” to prove the existence of witchcraft to a growing number of rationalists. His son Cotton Mather (1662 – 1728), would be blamed – perhaps unfairly - for the tragic events at Salem. Cotton Mather wrote in his Diary:
 
“The devils, after a most preternatural manner, by the dreadful judgment of heaven, took a bodily possession of many people in Salem, and the adjacent places…”
 
But he continued in the same passage:
 
“For my own part, I was always afraid of proceeding to commit and condemn any person, as a confederate with affecting demons, upon so feeble an evidence as a spectral representative. Accordingly, I ever testified against it, both publicly and privately.”
 
In 1692, 31 people had been condemned to death for “witchcraft” during the Salem trials. 141 women and 44 men had originally been accused. 52 women and 7 men had been placed on trial. Of those condemned to death, Mary Bradbury escaped, two others pleaded pregnancy, five were reprieved, Ann Foster and Sarah Osborne died in jail, Tituba remained in jail and the remaining 19 were hanged.
 
By October 7, 1711, 22 of the 31 convicted had their sentences reversed following appeals by their relatives that had been initiated in 1709. Other hanged individuals had to wait until 1957, when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts finally reversed their sentences.

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I began this article on the subject of the Constitution, and discussed how witch-hunting was the antithesis of what the Constitution was set up for. There are no civilized countries in the world where witches are officially executed – tribal regions of Nigeria, South Africa and parts of India still have such cases, but the only wealthy nation that officially endorses the capital punishment for witchcraft is Saudi Arabia.
 
There are many people in America and the West who like to call themselves “witches.” Why are these not represented in the White House's Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships? Are there any Buddhists, Yazidi, Druze, Animists, Zoroastrians, Presbyterians, Swedenborgians or Shamans on this panel? ...

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