<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/db8c3a0a-1d63-4f81-825f-7324145baca6/BB89E534-1EDF-4544-ABD4-2B6EFB21569E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080202.MISSTOURISM02/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080202.MISSTOURISM02/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theglobeandmail.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080202.MISSTOURISM02/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/"><P>Stephanie Conover has been making headlines lately, but it's not in her capacity as Miss Plus Canada 2007. Rather, it's her connection to another beauty pageant - Miss Toronto Tourism, which takes place tonight at Harbourfront's Radisson Hotel Admiral - that has been in the news.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080202.MISSTOURISM02/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/"><P>At one time, Ms. Conover had been invited to be a judge for the pageant, but that was before organizers asked her to submit a biography. It was in that description of herself that she listed Reiki and tarot reading among her interests.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080202.MISSTOURISM02/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/"><P>"They said that I would be unacceptable as a judge because I don't possess an upstanding reputation because of these hobbies and that I should repent," Ms. Conover says.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080202.MISSTOURISM02/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/"><P>She has since been dismissed as a judge and is considering legal action for what she considers to be religious discrimination.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080202.MISSTOURISM02/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/">"They said that God, Jews, Muslims and Christians frown upon Reiki and tarot cards, and that these were the occult and that I use them to commune with the dark forces," Ms. Conover says.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BB89E534-1EDF-4544-ABD4-2B6EFB21569E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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