Christian Justice?
The news has just come in that Cynthia Simpson’s appeal to the Supreme Court has been rejected. Simpson, a Wiccan (and aspiring UU minister) had taken Chesterfield County, Va to court over the right to...
View ArticleWiccans and Nonsectarian Prayer
The Winston-Salem Journal reports on a lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (along with Americans United) and Forsyth County over their policy concerning prayer at...
View ArticleFighting For (Christian) Prayer
South Carolina is making the news for a bill focusing on public prayer that has been advanced in its Senate. The South Carolina Public Invocation Act, originally introduced by Republican Senator Chip...
View ArticleThe Public Prayer War Escalates
Few could have envisioned that when Wiccan Darla Kaye Wynne first filed suit against the small South Carolina town of Great Falls in 2001, that it would spark a seven-year judicial and legislative...
View ArticlePolytheist Prayers Now Welcome in Frederick County
Back in May I wrote an article looking at the issue of opening invocations at various government bodies. At the center of that piece was discussion of a recently enacted policy in Maryland by the...
View ArticleA Setback for Sectarian Prayers (to Jesus)
There’s been quite a bit of discussion this year concerning when sectarian prayers in the United States are permissible in a governmental setting. We’ve had the drama of the “Wiccan-proof” prayer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An End to Sectarian Prayers in Forsyth County, and How Wiccans Have Shaped...
On Tuesday the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari (judicial review) in the case of Forsyth County, North Carolina v. Joyner, which challenged the local government’s opening prayer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chesterfield County, Wiccans, and Sectarian Prayer
This story begins in 2002. Cynthia Simpson, a Wiccan and member of a local Unitarian Universalist congregation in Virginia, approached the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors to be included in a...
View Article
