Pagan
Political Links and Resources
Listed here are various links
to sites that have a stake and have taken a
stand in the political battle regarding Paganism
and Wicca
For groups that are not strickly
Pagan in outlook see below.
Pagan
Unity Committee (PUC)
The Pagan Unity Campaign's sole purpose is
to advocate, to elected
officials, that the articles upheld in the
Pagan Bill Of Rights be enforced
for Pagans. These are not new laws, but pre-existing
ones where hate,
bigotry and ignorance often overwrite the
law.
For more information, please visit our website.
Pagans in Action Council for Truth
http://www.cybergoddess.net/pactpa - PA Website
http://www.cybergoddess.net/pact
- National Website
Non
Pagan Groups Fights for Religious Freedom
People
for the American Way (2000 M St. NW, #400,
Washington DC 20036). This group has pluralistic,
feminist, and democratic biases fully in keeping
with Neopagan polytheology. They have been keeping
tabs on the Religious Reich for over fifteen
years and their website contains a wealth of information
the fundamentalists would rather you didn't read.
The other major force fighting
the Religious Reich is Americans
United for Separation of Church and State
(1816 Jefferson Place NW, Washington, DC 20036),
a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization
of moderate and liberal Christians, Jews, Unitarians,
Atheists, Agnostics, and yes, a few of us Pagans!
You can visit their website or send email to their
net liason at [email protected].
Their phone number is 202-466-3234. Their newsletter,
Church State is an excellent source
of news and advice on the fight against theocracy.
Also worthwhile is The
Freedom Writer, a newsletter published
by the Institute
for First Amendment Studies. IFAS was founded
by ex-fundamentalist minister Skipp Porteous and
attorney Barbara Simon. This publication, now
available online, focuses on the activities of
the Religious Reich, exposing fraudulent ministers,
anti-Semitism, censorship campaigns, etc. There
are also frequent news clipping about civil liberties
victories. Those of you who were once fundamentalists
might also be interested in IFAS' former publication
turned webpage, Walk
Away,written by and for ex-fundamentalists.
You can send IFAS email at "[email protected]" or snailmail
at Box 589, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Their
phone number is 1-800-370-3329.
For keeping tabs on trends throughout
the American religious scene, I can recommend
Religion Watch (Box 652, N. Bellmore,
NY 11710, $19.95 year USA). The editor, Richard P. Cimino, does an excellent job of
reporting trends in both mainstream and minority
religious movements, albeit with a slight Christian
bias.
Of course, for civil liberties
activism in general, there is no beating the American
Civil Liberties Union. Controversial as the
ACLU is, and disgusting as some of their clients
have been over the years, they remain the largest
and most effective defense against all those forces
(including the fundamentalists) who would trash
our Bill of Rights.
