Oh New Jersey, you're the source of such amusement. According to this story, a gay guy went to have his fortune read and what did he hear? That he was going to burn in hell. Faaaabulous! Of course the customer didn't much care for the prognostication, and that's when the hilarity ensued.

A born-again Christian, Mitchell says her religious doctrine opposes homosexuality.

Priceless. I'd have to say Ms. Mitchell is doing it wrong. Very, very wrong. You can't invoke your personal views when delivering someone their future. You have to stay objective, and just deliver the facts, ma'am. Warn him of something bad that's going to happen, clue him in on something good or how to make something good happen, and leave it at that. For instance, if you see him getting in a crash while driving his BMW, you don't tell him he'll get his for not buying American. Objectivity, baby. You can't make transactions personal. That's just not good business.

Now sadly for Ms. Mitchell, she's not only doing her job wrong, but she's doing Christianity wrong, too. It seems she's overlooked the following passages from her bible:

"Do not allow a sorceress to live." - Exodus 22:18
"Do not practice divination or sorcery." - Leviticus 18:21
"Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD," - Deuteronomy 18:10-12
"For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry." - 1 Samual 15:23

There's more where all that came from, but I think that should suffice. So poor MS. Mitchell is really in quite a mess. She can't get her job or her religion right. What the hell? Are either really that difficult? Ok, well maybe the whole seeing the future thing might be, but the religion part is pretty cut and dry. I mean, there's a book of instructions for Christ's sake. Surely she should be able to at least get that right, and let's face it, this divination thing seems like something she's not really cut out for anyway. For instance, why couldn't she see herself burning in hell? Or at the very least, why couldn't she see how her prognostication was going to turn out?

"I wanted to make him happy," she says.

Now there she actually did get her religion right. This is a perfect example of the Christian perversion of the Golden Rule, do unto others as YOU would have done unto YOU. As a Christian, you'd want someone to clue you in on the hell thing if you were being gay, so in her mind she was making him happy because that's what would make her happy if she were him. Of course she's not him, and therein lies the problem. The Christian perversion of the Golden Rule kills your ability to empathize with others. It completely eliminates empathy from the equation. With empathy, you'd realize your client might not take too kindly to hearing such a thing. So again, I think she needs to get out of this business since, if she wants to be a Christian, she can't be engaging in this magic stuff and in order to succeed in any kind of service industry, I'm afraid you have to have some ability to empathize with your clients.