Last Tuesday, the State Assembly began its daily session of running our lives with a prayer, as per usual. Except, it was not per usual at all.

One legislator thought the prayer itself sounded so odd, he decided to check into the background of the Rev. Selena Fox, who apparently had been chosen to inspire lawmakers with a little dose of paganism.

Rev. Selena Fox is senior minister and high priestess of Circle Sanctuary, a Wiccan church, Pagan resource center, and Nature preserve with a worldwide Ecospirituality ministry ...

For more than thirty years, Rev. Fox has served as one of the elders, religious freedom activists, and public media spokespersons for the Wiccan religion and related forms of contemporary Paganism and Nature religion, nationwide and internationally...

She is author of the Goddess Communion handbook and the research study: When Goddess is God. Her audio recordings include Sacred Cave Ritual and Magical Journeys...

And then there is this:

She is among the religious leaders appointed to and presently serving on the Religious Practices Advisory Committe to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.