While the RCFM in Massachusetts has been retired (a victim of its own success!) their work has been subsumed by Mass Equality. I do not know if Mass Equality and Equal Marriage.org, the other group related to the RCFM that continues its work, still have active Pagan leadership. And I wouldn’t claim that Maureen’s position of leadership was wholly without controversy.

But it was there. It was a fact. Pagans have been active and visible on this issue out of all proportion to our numbers, and I, for one, am very proud to have been able to work for equal marriage within the state of Massachusetts.

Can we do more? Sure–and let’s.

Unfortunately, queer rights advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign (which is hardly “queer,” but oh well…) don’t want to raise the religious issue in their objections to and advocacy on this matter. They try and keep everything “civil,” and just sit there whining “It’s not fair.” They have started a subgroup for religious inclusiveness, but they are not willing to include pagans in their listings or in their speaker programs and events, because we’re just a little too not-mainstream-enough to appeal to their main demographic, and that of their projected audience. Pagans advocating on these issues are seen as weird and deviant for being pagan…It’s a bit of a catch-22 in certain respects.

So, well done Hansen and Ásatrúarfélagid! And thanks again for posting this!

Glad to hear that the Asatruar in Iceland want gay marriage, too.

Come to that, why aren’t we out protesting about this issue (and the environment, and discrimination against Pagans in prison) instead of unimportant nonsense like reburial?