Sault Ste. Marie Pagans to celebrate Pagan Pride Day

[rug]

Witches, Wiccans, Druids, Pagans, Heathens, Goddess-Worshippers, and other earth-centred religious practitioners and their families will gather to celebrate Pagan Pride Day on September 11, 2011 beginning at noon, at the Bellevue Park Picnic Shelter.

This educational event, hosted by the Sault Ste. Marie Pagan Association, will include information on associated religious practices, vendors, an assortment of workshops, a food drive to celebrate the harvest, and an open religious ritual.

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September 11th's celebration will focus on a ritual celebrating the Autumn Equinox, a time of thanksgiving in many Pagan traditions.

The food and creature comforts drive held in conjunction with this is a way to give thanks for the abundance of the year, and share that abundance with others.

http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=53742

[plumbob]

1. Terrific idea for an informative, positive, and fun day.

Tip of the hat from an old atheist.

[Tesha]

3. Well, it's Canada, so things are different up there, ehh? (NT)

[bengalherder]

2. Very Cool!

As a vendor and participant in a couple of Pagan Pride Days in Sacramento, I'm happy to see it spread and flourish. I mean, hell, we got funny costumes and dance moves too! :party:

[ZombieHorde]

4. I wonder if New Agers and Neo Pagans have any animostity toward each other.

I Know there is some animosity between Wiccans and Hermetic traditions.

[Odin2005]

5. Which is funny, because most of Wicca is a rip-off of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Wicca's founder made shit up about secretive covens hiding from society, but most it is a rip-off from the Golden Dawn.

[Withywindle]

6. Welll....

Some elements of the rituals certainly are (and both have common elements with Freemasonry), but the theology is very different.

[dmallind]

7. Meh

Are they paying for this themselves?

Have they complied with all regulations for using public property?

Assuming yes then why should I care? So far this particular group of make believe merchants haven't tried to force the rest of us to follow their dogma or enshrine their preferences into law so I see nothing troubling with them hanging out together for a day. Nothing wonderful about it either. Might as well be a meeting of the toothpick-holder collecting society as far as I'm concerned.

[rug]

8. I'd better not tell you what these guys are up to.

http://www.nthcs.org/

[dmallind]

9. I use them intentionally - was once in the next room to their conference! nt

[Lucian]

10. This doesn't bother me.

I've never run into a pagan trying to convert me.