Christine O'Donnell's remarks about Satanism peeve witches

Now that Christine O'Donnell has disavowed her admission on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect" talk show in 1999 that she "dabbled into witchcraft" but "never joined a coven," she has inopportunely upset Wiccans. The high priestess of the pagan-promoting Circle Sanctuary, Reverend Selena Fox, accuses O'Donnell of "defaming" Wiccans, telling HuffPo any political candidate who equates witchcraft with Satanism "is ill informed and is not likely to get the support of people involved in nature religion." 

O'Donnell, who is running for U.S. Senate in Delaware, probably won't have to worry about losing the Wiccan vote. On the other hand, she may never escape her youthful remarks, which Maher is playing over and over again until O'Donnell returns to his show. "I hung around people who were doing these things," O'Donnell said in 1999. "I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do ... One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s a little blood there and stuff like that ... We went to a movie and then had a little midnight picnic on a satanic altar."