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{weblog_name} - Praying For Wiccans
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Any time the government chooses to define what constitutes religion you’re going to have a problem. And that is so once again with the strange case of a federal appeals bench consideration as to whether a Wiccan religious leader can have his day in court to pursue a religious discrimination case. The case, McCollum vs. California, is being heard by the Florida-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  The clergy member has said that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is violating constitutional rights by limiting paid clergy positions to members of five religions, not including his faith. A court denied him the right to bring the lawsuit on the grounds that he was not the correct party to do so. Now I’m not so keen on Wiccans as a religion. In fact, I’m not even… read more