Welcome to the 21st century in American machashefa jurisprudence.
In the 1980s, a Federal District Court in Virginia ( Dettmer v Landon) recognized “witchcraft” as a valid and legitimate religious exercise and this was upheld by the Fourth Circuit., determining that people who practice witchcraft as a religion are entitled to the same Constitutional protections as those who follow other belief systems. At least half the states (including those intolerant dudes in Massachusetts) have offered explicit legal recognition for Wicken or Pagan practices under state constitutional guarantees for free exercise.
Bottom Line: Until moishiach arrives and reverses Dettmer, et. al.
don’t be surprised to see variations of machashefa show up in your local jurisdictions