[Ansteorra] SCA associations (was RE: Group status changes)

[Manners, Tabitha]

This raises a question, are you clarifying that SCA stands for Society for Creative Anachronism or are you just talking about the SCA.  It has actually gone done on the search relevance lists recently, but SCA is also used commonly to refer to the Satanic Church of America and this may be where some of these problems and mis-associations stem from.  Combine that with talk of Beltane and Samhain and it is easy for uninformed groups to get them confused or combine the two in their mind.

Liliana

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From: ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Mungentuya TirMedoin
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Group status changes

 <I have also had people say stuff to me when wearing garb, not the usual
"are you in a play?" but things like calling me a Satan worshipper. Heck, I
even had to deal with that attitude from my family too, for quite sometime.
It is something that we have to deal with out here. We fight a lot of
different biases, because as said below, we seem to be less urban and more
rural.>

I've been working on a resume and I was told to leave SCA and all SCA activities out of my resume and interview because of of the satanic worshipper stigma that somehow attached itself to the group.

My area (Temple/Belton, or the western area of Tir Medoin) also has a Christian university that has strong influence in Belton, and I've run into the problems of people thinking that since we (the SCA) don't promote any religion, we're automatically satanic. Though I've helped some understand, most can't understand the SCA's not promoting religion and have the same misconception as the 'no prayer in schools' situation.  You can still DO it, but it's not done in a way that makes people who don't want to feel like they HAVE to.  At least that's what I'm interpreting from SCA policy and what I've seen at the events I've been to.

Also, has anyone else had to deal with people who thought the SCA was a terrorist group?  I've been in that situation twice and have been lucky enough to be able to explain things and help the person understand that we're not here to take the White House one stick at a time.   Has anyone else run into this?

Mungentuya






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