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Pagan Group's Right To Use Park For Ceremony Is Questioned

By Howard M. Friedman

KERO News yesterday reported on a confrontation of sorts that occurred in a Bakersfield, California park last week when a group of pagans chose the park to use for their harvest ritual. Ravens Folk Kindred, a group of Odinists, apparently frightened neighbors as they raised their tattooed arms into the air. Some of the onlookers thought they were white supremacists giving the Nazi salute. A park ranger and two sheriff's deputies arrived to investigate and initially told the group that they were breaking no laws. But later the ranger with 5 deputies returned to Standard Park and ordered the group to leave.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).