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31 Mar 2014, 9:55 am
“God’s prayer-response system has been plagued by massive, chronic backlogs, and many prayers have gone unanswered in the process,” said Gene Suozzi, a Phoenix-area Wiccan. [read post]
2 Nov 2013, 9:03 pm by Lyle Denniston
  Is having a prayer always a form of worship, or might it have a more neutral function? [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 12:39 pm by Ken Klukowski
The town clerk invites every house of worship within city limits to volunteer, and also allows any citizen of any faith to volunteer. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
However the court dismissed claims of various other interferences with his ability to practice his Wiccan religion.In Clay v. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 8:00 am by Stephen Wermiel
After two town residents, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, complained about the practice, in 2008 the prayer was delivered on one occasion by a Wiccan priestess, on another occasion by a local Baha’i leader, and twice by a local Jewish man. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 1:12 pm by Carl Esbeck
  It instead got an invocation open to all willing locals, including Wiccans and atheists, who, because the Board could not be censorious prayer police, were permitted to say (pray?) [read post]
8 Sep 2013, 9:45 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 127662 (ED CA, Sep. 5, 2013), a California federal magistrate judge held that an inmate could proceed against certain of the defendants on the claim that they substantially burdened the practice of his religion by failing to provide Wiccan services and failing to purchase Wiccan materials and artifacts. [read post]
29 May 2013, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
By and large, the prayers have been delivered solely by Christian clergy, except for a blip of time that—not coincidentally—fell in the midst of the litigation where they recruited a Wiccan priestess, a Baha’i congregation leader, and a secular Jew. [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 10:00 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 111132, July 9, 2012), and dismissed as moot a Wiccan inmate's complaint about the inability to schedule Sabbat and Esbats and holy day worship. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 9:43 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 46610 (D ID, March 30, 2012), an Idaho federal district court dismissed an inmate's complaint that he was temporarily removed from his work assignments in the prison chapel and Life Transitions Program and that his worship times in the prison chapel were limited. [read post]
3 Jul 2011, 10:57 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 69209 (ED CA, June 27, 2011), a California federal magistrate judge dismissed, with leave to file an amended complaint, a claim that prison officials failed to provide Wiccan inmates with appropriate religious space for their worship services. [read post]
29 May 2011, 6:40 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 55560 (D AZ, May 23, 2011), an Arizona federal district court rejected a complaint by a Wiccan inmate that a prison order treats Native American Sweat Lodge ceremonies more favorably than outdoor ceremonies by other religious groups by barring interruption of Sweat Lodge ceremonies except for security concerns. [read post]
10 Apr 2011, 8:00 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 34610 (ND TX, March 31, 2011), a Texas federal magistrate judge rejected an inmate's complaint that House of Yahweh members are not permitted to worship together as a separate religious group. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 8:50 am by Transplanted Lawyer
Some Wiccans worship an entity they call "The Goddess" and others worship an amorphously-defined pantheon of spirits of nature, aiming at ultimately worshiping nature itself. [read post]
18 Jul 2010, 1:45 pm by Howard Friedman
Plaintiff claimed that the prison failed to post notices of Wiccan services, that he was denied ritual tools and supplies, that the Wiccan group was forced to meet outside in cold weather, and that he feared retaliation for practicing his religion.In Washington v. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 10:30 am by Howard Friedman
., June 7, 2010), the 8th Circuit rejected a Wiccan inmate's challenges under RLUIPA and the First Amendment to limits on his keeping prayer oil in his cell and limits on the herbs he can purchase and on smudging and incense burning inside. [read post]
16 May 2010, 6:25 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 47263, Jan. 14, 2010) and refused to dismiss a claim that denying use of the prison chapel for Muslim worship without a sponsor violated RLUIPA. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 4:17 pm by Eugene Volokh
And you don’t have to worship using the religious objects that he makes in shop class, in a process that is just as educational to him as making a nonreligious table would be to a non-Wiccan student. [read post]