another facebook post in respinse to a guestion from there:
Crystal I would agree in principal. I think the fears of most wiccans and Pagans out there in mainstream is one of still being persecuted on several levels for their wholly misunderstood craft. I worked in heath care for many many years. As U may know more than a few of my fellows were Wiccan and Pagan. Some, it took me years to discover that they were pagan because they never discussed it. This was out of fear of reprisal. My wife for years felt the anx of working in a company where Christian employees were never admonished after holding open prayer meetings and Bible thumping all day long in the break areas. Yet there would have been no support for her if she had held ritual on a break. She would have been shunned and gone for some reason or another. This of course was during the Bush years. EEOC is indeed a lot stronger today and doing what it was originally intended to do. Protecting the equity in the work place. Yet it takes people awhile to realize things may be a wee bit different/better today. Especially with America once again fighting over racist issues like profiling (Code for rampant fear over the Browning of America).
We must unite, we must seek Counsel that is Pagan or sympathetic to the cause. We must come out of the closet at some point. The risk be damned and start a viable civil rights movement for true religious freedom in this country. We must correct the fallacy that this country was founded in the name of Christianity. This country was founded by a bunch of Masons who were very much for freedom of practice in all religions.
Just as the ending of slavery in 1863, Giving the slaves citizenship in 1866, giving women the right to vote i 1920, the integration of the Military in 1947, The civil rights act of 1964 and a dozen or so more. this too will sadly have to be specifically legislated for nothing in this country is just assumed under it is a simple concept.given of freedom.
We must unite, we must seek Counsel that is Pagan or sympathetic to the cause. We must come out of the closet at some point. The risk be damned and start a viable civil rights movement for true religious freedom in this country. We must correct the fallacy that this country was founded in the name of Christianity. This country was founded by a bunch of Masons who were very much for freedom of practice in all religions.
Just as the ending of slavery in 1863, Giving the slaves citizenship in 1866, giving women the right to vote i 1920, the integration of the Military in 1947, The civil rights act of 1964 and a dozen or so more. this too will sadly have to be specifically legislated for nothing in this country is just assumed under it is a simple concept.given of freedom.