It’s the same old story, a tradition in New England.
The Witch Hunt.
Facts are really necessary. Only fear and uncertainty. Greed and lust help and you can’t forget the eternal quest for social status among your peers. All you need is a whisper, a suggestion tendered as gently as a gallant suggestion to a noble lady would be done. And with care and patience it grows. Facts aren’t necessary. In 1692, in Massachusetts, political reality was based in a belief system.
The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, a special court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallows Hill, while some 150 more men, women and children were accused over the next several months. By September 1692, the hysteria had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials. Though the Massachusetts General Court later annulled guilty verdicts against accused witches and granted indemnities to their families, bitterness lingered in the community, and the painful legacy of the Salem witch trials would endure for centuries. (Plagiarized from History.com)
In our case, we’re still alive and well but we lost a really great place to live. And we really don’t know why. The best we can guess based on our observations is that Marjorie Drakestarted a witch hunt to gather complaints about us because she doesn’t care for people like us. And she wants her friends the Inskeeps as neighbors. We thought that with the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell we were living in a safe haven. But I guess protection against persecution is only for members of the military. Not elderly disabled civilians who just happen to be gay.
