City officials and organizers behind the city’s annual St. Pete Pride festival have hammered out a potential compromise that would allow the nonprofit to temporarily fly a slightly modified rainbow flag in the city’s gay-friendly business district.
City employees “aren’t anti-gay and weren’t doing something specifically against the community,” said Jeff Klein, co-chairman of this year’s St. Pet
… June 1: Witchcraft Laws Go Into Effect went into effect. … colonies. In 1985, the Federal government recognized Wicca as a legitimate religion. …
Seventy years after its discovery the debate still rages over who was buried in the mound overlooking the River Deben.
Andrew Clarke spoke to National Trust archaeologist Angus Wainwright about the most likely candidate for Sutton Hoo’s most celebrated resident.
For many there is no doubt that the ship burial at Sutton Hoo is that of a king - certainly the rich treasures found in the burial
Judge Sonia Sotomayors record doesnt show a rigid, ideological outlook on First Amendment issues.
Sotomayor nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barrack Obama to replace the departing Justice David Souter has handled a wide variety of First Amendment issues in her 16 years as a judge for the U.S. District Court and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
First Amendment advo
… make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” - … a pentacle - a symbol of the Wiccan religion - right next to baby Jesus. …
After Trish Reynolds lost her newspaper editing job, she looked heavenward for guidance.
Consulting an astrology book, she saw the planets aligned in a way that suggested a pause before she’d return to steady employment. So the Budd Lake resident delved back into a novel she’d been writing.
Like Reynolds, who is a Wiccan, a growing number of Jerseyans are exploring alternate routes to their
My thinking may not tend much toward New Age philosophy, but I do try to cultivate a belief in cosmic serendipity. As a doctrine it doesn’t require much discipline beyond keeping my eyes open, alert to whatever portents or talismans may cross my path; I make a point of reading flyers on telephone poles.
On a spring afternoon on the north side of Chicago, one of these catches my attention. “Week
The mother of a girl who went to school with white supremacist symbols drawn on her body didn’t see why her daughter should have to sit next to Muslims, a social worker testified Wednesday.
Nor did the mother appear to understand why it was hateful to laugh if someone beat up a black child, the social worker told a custody hearing.
“White pride is worldwide,” the social worker recalled the m
Like a guardian angel, a sculpture carved of red cedar by a former St. Paul resident watches over Combs Cemetery.
“The creation of this sculpture was a very deeply healing process for me after losing my father, Tanner E. Mahaffey, who was born in St. Paul in 1925,” Mike Mahaffey said. “He is deeply missed by all his family and friends in Madison County, and there is a real connection to my root
A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines they continued to hold bible studies in their home, 10News reported.
Attorney Dean Broyles of The Western Center For Law and Policy was shocked with what happened to the pastor and his wife.
Broyles said, “The county asked, ‘Do you have a regular meeting i
