{"id":8822,"date":"2002-10-31T18:51:17","date_gmt":"2002-10-31T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/31\/those-whacky-wiccans\/"},"modified":"2002-10-31T18:51:17","modified_gmt":"2002-10-31T23:51:17","slug":"those-whacky-wiccans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/those-whacky-wiccans\/","title":{"rendered":"Those whacky Wiccans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3366ff>Frustrated by an unsuccessful campaign to achieve<br \/>\nreligious recognition from the Boy Scouts of America, a Seattle-based Wicca<br \/>\nchurch has launched its own youth program, which is based on tolerance for<br \/>\ndifferent beliefs, including differences in sexual orientation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3366ff>SpiralScouts founder Pete &#8220;Pathfinder&#8221; Davis believes<br \/>\nthat many of the things the Boy Scouts are doing are &#8220;socially inappropriate.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said he created the SpiralScouts to &#8220;fill the void left by prejudicial<br \/>\ntreatment of other established children&#8217;s programs.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3366ff>Davis, who serves as the Archpriest of the Wiccan<br \/>\nAquarian Tabernacle Church, said his main argument with the BSA is that the<br \/>\ngroup has refused to recognize Wicca as an acceptable form of worship, but at<br \/>\nthe same time, the BSA incorporates the symbols of myriad Christian<br \/>\ndenominations into its Religious Emblems program.<\/font><br \/>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/articles\/2002\/10\/31\/70432.shtml\">Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they will offer demerit badges in hex casting and<br \/>\nbroom piloting? Will they have different levels like tender-warlock up to mage<br \/>\nscouts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated by an unsuccessful campaign to achieve religious recognition from the Boy Scouts of America, a Seattle-based Wicca church has launched its own youth program, which is based on tolerance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}