A proposal aimed at allowing businesses to perform tarot card readings has sparked a heated debate in a small Virginia town.
The controversy began back in October when police in the town of Richlands forced the owners of an occult shop to stop performing tarot readings for their customers.
Despite the fact that they had been doing the readings for free, the owners were informed that divination was prohibited because the zoning law didn't expressly allow such activity.
As such, one of the shop's owners, Mark Mullins, set about trying to change that and put forward a proposal to the town council that would allow him to resume performing the readings.
However, his attempt to rectify the situation was met with some surprisingly strong pushback from angry Richlands residents leery of legally opening the door to divination.
More on this remarkable story at the Coast to Coast AM website.