A revolution in attitudes towards gay men and lesbians is indicated in a poll which shows that a majority of the public want homosexuals to share identical rights to everyone else.
Just 40 years after homosexual acts were legalised, and only nine years since the age of consent was equalised, 61 per cent of the public want gay couples to be able to marry just like the rest of the population, not
Something with poison in it, I think. With poison in it, but attractive to the eye and soothing to the smell! Poppies! Poppies! Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleep now they will sleep.
Some of you may be sitting there with a smile on your face as you recognize that quote from the movie The Wizard of Oz as said by the wicked witch. It is funny how some things strike a memory in our lives
When protesters took to the streets over Iran’s disputed presidential election, that nation turned to its supreme leaders Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his 12-member Guardian Council, made up of clerics and experts in Islamic law for a verdict on the election’s outcome.
Iran’s appeal to religious authorities for a binding decision on a national election struck me as odd. Or quaint. Or ominous.
What do gypsy fortune-tellers, ghosts, vampires, aliens and werewolves have in common?
Not much, except that they are all part of our popular culture, our 20th-century pagan mythology. It is my theory that everybody believes in ghosts. Maybe not all day, but at least at night.
Lately, it seems that a fatalistic attitude toward life has become part of our universal belief system. Like a sil
When people complain about the growing list of requests for accommodation in public schools from students and parents from minority faiths, I like to remind them that the majority faith wrote the rules.
Founded as Protestant-dominated institutions in the 19th century, public schools never open on Sunday, close for Christmas, and in other ways institutionalize accommodations for the majority fai
A Northam couple have tied the knot in front of 36,500 people at the Summer Solstice celebrations in Stonehenge.
Carl, 47 and Gigha Klinkenborg, 46, decided to have a Pagan wedding at the solstice celebrations, which mark the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere.
Record crowds joined in the celebrations this weekend, and also got to see the Northam couple’s ancient handfasting ceremony.
Coincidence, they say, is the mother of suspicion. But maybe thats all it was. Just coincidence. Im talking about demon possession and the outbreak of dancing mania on St. Johns Day.
Let me back up a minute here. For untold centuries, June 24, give or take a day or two, was regarded as one of the holiest days of the year. Ancient man had profound reverence for the movements of sun, moon and
In the spring of 1944, our squadron of PBY seaplanes, based at Jacksonville, Fla., was combing the Atlantic in search of German submarines. Our vectors changed every day, and sometimes we flew into the southern section of the famed Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devils Triangle. Whenever that happened, we would pretend that all was lost, that we would never be seen again because we would jus
Satanists have hit back at speculation that they were to blame for beheading a deer and dumping its body in a country lane near Northwich.
Former Barnton resident Brad Wilson contacted the Guardian to explain that members of their religion could not have been responsible for the crime.
The 19-year-old, who grew up in Spencer Street but now lives in Knutsford, said the rumours were offensive
More than three dozen doves await their fate at the Highlands County Animal Control after they were taken into custody during a marijuana grow house raid near River Ridge about two weeks ago.
Animal Control Director Darryl Scott said Wednesday that he believed the birds may have been intended for sacrificial use in Santeria-type religious ceremonies.
Scott said as a deputy and later as a Flo
