This past Sunday, June 28, I participated in the Gay Pride parade in Manhattan, as I like to do every year. This is a huge annual event, with tens of thousands of people marching.

( Some details of my participation, including a flyer I distributed )

I recently came across a really weird website advertising Hindu exorcisms. The site features "Indian Vedic Rituals," "Yagya & Homam," and Hindu "Holy Talismans ( Read more... )

On the blog A Heathen's Day, I just now learned about a news story in the Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina), SC lawmakers have religion on minds, in bills by Jim Davenport, Associated Press, Tue, May. 13, 2008, in which Democratic Senator Yancey McGill (of South Carolina) says that Wicca is not a religion, and he's not sure about ( Read more... )

I just now came across the following: Are the Quakers Going Pagan? by Matthew Streib, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, 4/28/2008. Among other things, this article says:
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Thanks to Wolfshift for calling my attention to a complete online copy of The Scholars and the Goddess by Charlotte Allen, Atlantic Monthly, January 2001. (I had read that article a while back on the Atlantic website before it became subscribers only; there is now a copy on Rick Ross's site.) This article debunks some of the historical claims ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting recent entry on the Wild Hunt blog,
Where Old Satanic Panic Practitioners Go. Apparently some now-discredited Christian "experts" on Satanism and Wicca have moved their base of operations to the Third World in search of new dupes.

Here on LiveJournal there is a community called Non-Fluffy Pagans. Only members can post there and I'm not a member yet, so I'll post some comments here.

In a thread titled Pathetic Pagans, wibbble wonders about "victim mentality" among Pagans. Here are some of my thoughts about "victim mentality":
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I recently came across this web commentary: Newspaper Insults Wiccan Soldiers - Indeed, All Wiccans, about a mock-photo cartoon that appeared in the New York Post accompanying an April 24 news story titled Something Wicca This Way Comes. The news story itself, by Scott Bauer of the Associated Press, was about the legal battle by the families of ( Read more... )