A religious bigot denies a student the right to build a Wiccan altar in shop class because he thinks Wicca is bad.  “It scares me. I’m a Christian,” he said. “This witchcraft stuff – it’s terrible for our kids. It takes kids away from what they know, and leads them to a dark and violent…

Sorn and Low Key have led me to re-examine my comments about Vikings in my post on the loss of America’s soul. The Norsemen were not quite the villains they have been depicted as by Christian historians.  They suggested Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick’s excellent Pagan Europe and a BBC interview with Robert Ferguson on…

Anne has a podcast interview of Patrick McCollum’s religious freedom struggle here on Blog o’ Gnosis.  It’s worth your while as McCollum gives vastly more detail and depth to this issue than is available in a published format. The two-faced hypocrisy and nastiness of so many of the people at California’s Dept. of Corrections is…

Wild Hunt has done wonderful work in making more information available.  See Jason Pitzi-Water’s latest report here.  And he also had a piece when McCoillum met with Obama Administration officials to discuss issues such as religious discrimination.  Pitzi-Waters quotes McCollum  as to some of the truly depraved actions by Fundamentalists in California’s prison system I’d…

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