Check Out: Altars to an Unknown Goddess
Head over to the religion journalism blog Get Religion to check out Terry Mattingly’s examination of a recent New York Times write-up on the few enduring lesbian separatist communities. Mattingly rightly asks, where’s the examination of their religion?
But here is the mystery, to me. While the story is saturated with religious images — the sisters in this secret, hidden, gated community live on streets named after goddesses, like Diana Drive — there is no specific content about organized religion. Are the sisters agnostics, pagans, a mixture of various liberal mainline faiths? Are they feminist Catholics? Are any of the sisters ordained? We are not told. They are driven by very religious motivations and they are practicing strict, strict, strict doctrinal separatism. But we do not know if these beliefs link to organized religion — other than faith in radical feminism and to the vows that define their corner of the sexual revolution.
These women have “community full moon circles”, but do they have a Goddess? The article never makes it explicit. I encourage my readers to read both the NYT article, and Mattingly’s post, and leave your two cents.
2 responses so far
Since when are lesbian separatist communes an example of a lack of tolerance in "the Neo-Pagan community"?
I am equally disgusted with men who hate women. The Patriarchy is losing steam, let's not replace it with a Matriarchy. I all for sharing responsibilities and power.