Christine O'Donnell Quotes
I dabbled into witchcraft-I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do.
O'Donnell, Christine. Politically Incorrect. Hosted by Bill Maher, ABC, 29 Oct. 1999.
Lyford was convinced that the Satanists had killed and eaten many children. The eaten children had been missing and were not found and since they had been eaten there was no evidence of the deaths. Texas has had more than its share of prosecutors who have very loose legal standards, but this was exteme, even in Texas, Incredibly enough some people were almost convicted of murder in this modern version of a witch hunt with the same logic that the lack of evidence proved Satan was behind it as only he could cover up all that evidence. Fortunately the Texas Attorney General dismissed Lyford and exonerated the suspects.
Whereas there are a small number of fundamentalist Christians who do not celebrate Halloween and oppose it because it has pagan origins, and they base their decisions on that fact, O’Donnell’s claim of human sacrifice was totally unfounded. There has not been a single case of Halloween human sacrifice ever documented in all the years the holiday has been celebrated by most Americans.
Christine Therese O'Donnell is a former Republican Party candidate and conservative activist in the Tea Party movement best known for her 2010 campaign for the United States Senate seat from Delaware vacated by current President Joe Biden.
