Ernie Land Challenges Common Law Theorists And Others To Make Kent Hovind A Test Case
I only just met Ernie Land, but I found that we had quite a bit in common. We are roughly the same age and when we discussed the best way to run a religious based...
Thespians And Pagans Fight Assessors In New York Court
Most of my pretty limited exposure to neo-paganism has been of traditions that were in part resisting the spread of the Roman Empire. The Phryganium, though is a revival of a tradition that was practiced in the Empire. In some of the coverage, you get the sense that there was a belief that the Town was upset by the paganism. I still would not rule out that it was generalized resistance to having another property go off the rolls. In my original article, I pointed out a Massachusetts case in which West Springfield was trying to tax a house that was lived in by women who were actual Catholic nuns.
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