I would like to propose a positive pagan orthdoxy:

"Diversity is good."

That's it.  One tenet only.  I would like this to be the primary standard by which intra-pagan ecumenicism is judged.  Let this be our ethos.

I've been thinking of the style practiced by LCoP as "Blue Triskele Wicca" for a while now ( Read more... )

• in a discussion in Pantheon, Glenn responded to me asking if "any of the individuals you worship with participate in any other pagan practices than Asatru?":

[N]o.... Why would we stray from the Gods and Goddesses of our ancestors and who we love and honor so very much ?

That's not what I've seen here in East Central Illinois.  There are Asatruar who ( Read more... )

There was kerfluffle at PantheaCon about trans inclusion.  One response can be found at:
http://fruitofpain.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/in-response-to-the-lilith-rite-at-pantheacon/

I'm not focusing on the blog post but on two of the comments to the post.

Z. Budapest wrote:This struggle has been going since the Women’s Mysteries first appeared. ( Read more... )

I'm in yet another good discussion of how I approach third-gender in Wicca.  And yet again, the discussion has been stimulated by the rantings of the same ijit.  At least sie's good for something.
http://community.livejournal.com/wiccan/1481574.html
Since it's a locked entry, I'm copying my comments below.

I've also started a separate post for this ( Read more... )

• Written in response to a post titled " heteronormativity and gender polarity in the craft" in wiccan, which is a community for discussing British Traditional Wicca!

I think my comments are remarkably restrained, considering that the person I was responding to did such things as telling one of the regulars in the community to "grow a clit".

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http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usil&c=words&id=13510

The above link was posted in wiccan. You can see the whole thread here.

My final comment on this was:

Let's look at the definition of paganism that the author of the article suggests we should be defending:
Neo-Paganism is any earth-centric religion that attempts to either reconstruct or ( Read more... )