Re: Beer crates, again...

At 10:21 AM -0700 7/30/02, John Atkinson wrote:
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>Yes.  As a matter of fact, I played a regular card
>game with most of the coven back on Montieth.	There

???? Montieth? Is this a base? That's my sept name that I get from my 
great grandfather.

>is a pretty good overlap between gamers and pagans, to

And Goths for that matter. There's a fellow in a Decontamonation/chem 
platoon out at Hood that you may have come across at some point. 
Matt/Nywind iirc (can't recall his last name though....)

>include my roommate.  :)  They don't do it skyclad,
>and there's a running gun battle between most pagans
>and their commanders over athames (big knives are
>generally required to be kept in the arms room), but

Probably not a huge deal, but given the habit for things in the arms 
room to be played with by the gits that "guard" them, I'd be pretty 
unhappy if I were pagan and had to keep it there.

How do they handle Sikhs in the US army? Sometimes one has to wonder 
if in some contexts, a form of segregation would work out better. The 
British army formed sepoys into specific units that allowed for some 
better unit integrity. Especially with regards to the ghurkas. That 
and the uniforms were able to be modified to conform to religious 
practices and habits of that cultural sub group For example, sikhs 
wearing the turban like head wear, retaining a smaller beard, and 
wearing their ritual knife as required.

>other than that and petty (and illegal) harassment
>Wiccans have as much freedom of religion as anyone
>else.

Since the Bob Barr related flap has died down, where does that stand
now?

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