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The Supreme Court sided with a Christian counselor challenging Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, ruling it raises First Amendment concerns and must be reconsidered, highlighting tensions between free speech protections and regulation of licensed mental health practices.
Pagans joined millions in nationwide “No Kings” protests on March 28, bringing spiritual perspectives into a broad movement opposing President Donald Trump’s policies, while emphasizing community solidarity, religious diversity, and shared commitments to civil rights and collective action.
Over the course of the 2010s, it felt as though Heathens in the U.S. military made steady, if slow, progress on their religious rights. Pete Hegseth claims to have reversed all those gains in a matter of weeks. Karl E.H. Seigfried considers where Heathens go from here.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Cherry Hill ordinations, Cybele appears in Madrid during a soccer match, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel featured in recent news coverage.
The Department of Education’s new guidance affirms protected religious expression in public schools, while raising questions about how neutrality, enforcement, and the absence of non-Abrahamic examples may shape its real-world application.