Since I founded the Pagan Educational Network in 1993, I have kept a close eye on the religious right (or “evangelicals”). I thought it was pointless to reach out to them since they had such strong prejudices and felt we’d have much better luck with moderates (which was true). But the religious right is dangerous to Pagans, from efforts by Senator Jesse Helms and Representative Bob Barr to strip us of constitutional protections to church-motivated violence against Pagans and damage to Pagan businesses.
It's Fiery Tuesday and we've got five hot news stories for you: political parties & religious identity; sexuality & Pagan consent culture; sex magick, and Pagan civil rights.
Religious identity and political party *do* track together: find out who hangs out together in this Gallup news report.
Are the divisive culture wars focusing on personal morality (contraception, LGBT marriage etc) pushing young people away from organized religion altogether? Some polling seems to suggest that the religious right is winning legal battles, but losing the "hearts & minds" war, especially among younger Americans. http://religiondispatches.org/hobby-lobby-key-to-a-more-liberal-and-less-religious-america/
Erin Lale
Fellow faculty at Harvard Divinity School posted an open letter to Wolpe in response to his article. It's available on this page, below the call for p...
Erin Lale
Here's another response. The Wild Hunt has a roundup of numerous responses on its site, but it carried this one as a separate article. It is an accoun...
Erin Lale
Here's another response. This one is by a scholar of paganism. It's unfortunately a Facebook post so this link goes to Facebook. She posted the text o...
Erin Lale
Here's another link to a pagan response to the Atlantic article. I would have included this one in my story too if I had seen it before I published it...
