Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell, who had a failed bid for U.S. Senate a year ago, walks out throughout an interview which airs on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Wednesday right after being asked to consider on the issues of witchcraft and additionally gay marriage.
Video of the segment released by CNN exhibits the exchange which took place on the latter subject.
During the 2010 election season, video surfaced of O’Donnell showing she is “dabbled into witchcraft.” In the video clip from years earlier she stated, “I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do.” The Tea Party favorite discussed, “One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar and I didn’t know it. I mean, there was a little blood there and stuff like that. … We went to a movie and then had a little picnic on a satanic altar.”
As reported from HuffPost:
— O’Donnell immediately distanced herself from the quote, asking whether it was fair to hold candidates responsible for the “questionable folks” they hung out with in high school. The clarification may have been the only sane political move for O’Donnell to make. But it had the side effect of angering an already politically sensitive pagan community.
“Yes, this was 11 years ago she said that,” said Reverend Selena Fox, the High Priestess & Senior Minister of the Circle Sanctuary a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting paganism and nature spirituality. “But the kinds of things she is saying now, saying ‘well in high school you are with despicable characters’ or some such thing, she is actually defaming Wiccans. Whether she intends to do that or not as a way to try and get herself out of this political problem she has created for herself, the fact is America really needs to be a place where you can celebrate diversity and practice your religion without getting ridiculed or defamed.” —
In the course of her campaign, O’Donnell made news headlines having a political advertisement in which she says, “I’m not a witch.” Earlier this week, she said she never appreciated the spot and called its release her very own “mistake.”
When inquired about her views on gay marriage in Wednesday’s interview O’Donnell explains to Morgan, “You’re borderline being a little bit rude.”