Bless you! This is the kind of work pagans need to undertake when these hypocrites seek to take over this way. Their goal was to indoctrinate, and now even the morons out there have clear evidence that this was the purpose, for why else would they go apeshit when someone else used their “religious freedom”?

They’re fighting hard to convince everybody that “Intelligent design” is science. Once they achieve that goal (sufficiently), they will quickly move on to insist that evolution is not worthy of a science program, and thus should not be taught in school. You can quote me on that.

Also, it was not carried out with proselytizing in mind. We did it to prove a point- that religious advertising and/or recruiting has no place in public schools.
Sometimes you simply must fight fire with fire.

Well, the flyer in question was in no way “controversial”, other than it not being Christian. If Pagans, UU or otherwise, refuse to publicize their faiths in open forums due to fears of pissing people off, then we may as well cede any ground we have gained to the conservative Christians who believe we have no place in the alongside “respectable” faiths like theirs.

Of course it was going to get some negative attention (though not as much as the atheists got), but that tension is always going to be there until Paganism is truly accepted as part of the mainstream of religious belief.

Publicizing your congregation in a way that will piss off a large number of people and make headaches for the town’s schoolteachers. Is this really a formula for church growth?

Most of the UU congregations I’ve known don’t publicize themselves at all. Was Jefferson UU already doing something like the Uncommon Denomination promotion? Buying radio spots? Or was this it’s biggest media push of the year?