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My Unique Family

rev-kendra-vaughan-hovey and family (Rev. Kendra Vaughan Hovey (bottom) and her family (above). I got this photo in an email and do not know where it originally comes from. It someones knows please drop me a note so I can link and credit properly.)

I do not know how many of you watch TLC, but they had a show on last night called My Unique Family. Previous families that have all been done justice in my mind and not paraded as freaks like other shows do.

The first one I saw featured a husband and wife couple where the husband got a sex change and how they have dealt with the change and remained together.

The one I saw last week there was about a single mother and two children, they all have a particular deformity of their hands (Ectrodactyly.) The program showed how they deal with it in daily life and how it did not slow them down.

Then last night I watched the one about a Wiccan family (father, mother, two kids) with high hopes. Though I admit in the back of my head I was thinking “Oh no, here we go again. How bad will they make Pagans look this time?”

I was really presently surprised though! The family was as normal as can be, the father was an IT consultant and the mother ran the First Church of Wicca in her town and was a full-time mom. Take away the pentacle and she could have been any religious minister. They are raising their two children in the Wiccan path but they also are prepared to let them walk their own path if they so choose. If anything the show made some of the local Christians (that the producers interviewed for their opinions of the Wiccan family) look close minded and uniformed. On the whole the entire community accepts them. No drama, it could have almost been boring if it wasn’t so informative.

I do believe the broader image of Pagans is changing, which is a good feeling, though we must still continue to educate people so that the misconceptions do not prevail.

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