"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. "
-Rainer Maria Rilke

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Discrimination in NY

http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/10/the-endangered-maetreum-of-cybele.html.

This temple to Cybele in upstate NY is facing serious discrimination, ostensibly because they are Pagan but also likely because they are trans folk/trans friendly. If anyone can help, please consider doing so. These people are not only legitimate, but they are doing the Work. When the Gods came calling with a difficult task, they stepped up to the plate. If you are not in a position where you can offer any support, please keep them in your prayers.

For those of you who think this doesn't concern you consider: do we want a legal precedent set that encourages discrimination of polytheists? THAT has the potential to affect us all.

3 comments:

  1. First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;

    Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;

    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.


    --Martin Niemöller

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  2. Grrrr, it pisses me the hell off that this kind of stuff happens, even in this century! :-(

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