Last week, when Wiccan priestess Deborah Maynard delivered the opening prayer for the Iowa House of representatives the leader of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) in Cedar Rapids ...
Rep. Liz Bennett invited Priestess Deborah Maynard, out of Cedar Rapids, to give a Wiccan invocation to the House of Representatives in a couple weeks. It's an unusual decision that's raising a lot of ...
Republicans are escalating attacks on Iowa Democratic candidate Sarah Trone Garriott by pointing to her past op-eds — including her defense of a Wiccan-led statehouse prayer in which she argued "Jesus ...
Many of Iowa's House lawmakers opted to skip a prayer offered by a member of the Wiccan faith.The prayer Thursday by Deborah Maynard, a Wiccan from Cedar Rapids, was a break from tradition. Cedar ...
Prayer may soon be part of the Frederick County, Md., commissioners’ public meetings. Republican Frederick County Board of Commissioners President Blaine Young suggested implementing the prayer at the ...
SCHERTZ, Texas – The night wind pushes Don Larsen’s green robe against his lanky frame. A circle of torches lights his face. “The old gods are standing near!” calls a retired Army intelligence officer ...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Freedom of religion apparently only goes so far in Huntsville. Blake Kirk, a Wiccan priest who had been scheduled to offer the prayer tonight, June 26, 2014, at the Huntsville ...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – The first public prayer at a Huntsville City Council meeting since a controversy involving a Wiccan priest happened without a hiccup Thursday evening. Debbie Esslinger, an active ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- A woman who practices a religion rooted in witchcraft is suing county officials for refusing to add her name to a list of clergy invited to open board meetings with a prayer. The ...
A pagan priestess runs into the president of the atheists in a phone booth in New York. No, it's not a joke — it's the start of a controversial report from National Public Radio — and your tax dollars ...
RICHMOND, Dec. 6 -- In Chesterfield County, elected leaders bow their heads for a brief prayer to start every meeting of the Board of Supervisors. Local ministers, priests and the occasional rabbi, ...
Reporting from Portland, Ore. — Attending a rally for Bernie Sanders usually involves long lines and security screenings, but that wasn’t the case at an intimate, informal event Friday evening ...