It probably shows how involved I was in the church that I didn’t realize until later that “morally clean” was jargon for “chaste.” I took it to mean, “a good person overall,” so I said to him, “I try to be.” And I felt funny when he replied with something like “Well, the devil’s temptations are all over the place.”

Ok, here’s one of my stories. I went to a Samhain ritual in NY a few years ago, and during the ritual we did a spiral dance. I have a balance disorder and I get vertigo very easily, and all that circling, etc., triggered it and down I went. After it was over, the… well, she’s given herself all sorts of names/titles, but I’ll just call her the Samhain event organizer, yelled at me in front of everyone because we had just captured the energy and when I fell and we had to stop, it went away and never came back. It wasn’t so much that I care what an elderly woman in a spandex Halloween costume thinks about me, it’s just always unpleasant to be talked down to in front of a crowd, especially when the world is still spinning around you. If I gave any thought to what she said, which I don’t, I would be horribly offended that this energy from the Goddess and God would be denied to people with disabilities.