I thought it was in SC but its in Mass.

What's supposed to be a simple Halloween decoration is now brewing up some controversy in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

One group is calling the decoration a hate crime.

Driving down East Street in Chicopee it's hard not to notice a witch hanging from a noose.

To many, it's an innocent Halloween decoration, but for Kelly Lynch it's offensive.

"We don't harm anyone, we worship god, we are not evil, and we don't cast spells, " says Lynch.

Lynch is a witch.

She has been studying witchcraft since she was a child, and says it's her way of life.

"We are just like Christians, Muslims, we have our own religion, " adds Lynch.

That's why when she saw the life-like witch hanging in someones front yard she went straight to the home owner's door.

"He told me to lighten up, it was a Halloween decoration, I know it's his constitutional right, but I want it down. To make that your only decoration...it's kind of odd, " stresses Lynch.

But the owner will do no such thing. His neighbor says he has every intention of keeping it up.

"There's no way it's coming down. I think it's funny people are getting so upset, it's only a decoration, " says neighbor, Kevin Belder.

But Lynch says it's no laughing matter. She says it's a hate crime against her religion

If it didn't have the broom, I would have thought he hung a pilmgrim. However, he does have the gallows and the whole definite somebody got hanged in his yard.

That pumkin is offensive to my love of pumpkin pie knox!!!

Fanta, my pumpkin is throwing up at the sight of you in that tu-tu!

where do these loonies come from and why are they loose???

I agree Cute, or Devil, whichever you prefer to be called lol. Why am I going to therapy every month, and these people arn't!?

Bring the case to court,

... and as Rambill suggests, dismiss the case as 'frivolous'.

Then, in order to help the witch regain proper perspective, the sentence should condemn her to using a 'vibrator broom' for eternity!
(a male would condemned to eternal hand-jobs with a spiked glove!)

Im surprised adj4u hasnt chimed in!!!

Its just another hate crime!!!