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Dallas
City Council Has First Pagan Invocation
10-04-2000, Dallas Texas - Maeven Eller,
Betwixt & Between, Dallas, Texas, announces the successful and moving
invocation of Pagan priest Bryan Lankford at the Dallas City Council
meeting. We had some who tried to shout over Bryan, well one. The mayor
silenced him though. We had several who signed up on the agenda to speak
against it, one lady even brought a class room full of Baptist children in
uniforms.
"With the Texas state star hanging over the chambers, resembling the
pentacle hanging from our necks, we stood and listened to Bryan's invocation
How appropriate that this happened here in Dallas."
"Then three who were on the agenda to express their indifference to our
[Pagan] 'prayer' spoke..
When they were through the mayor said, and I paraphrase, he and the city
council are not in the business of choosing religions. He [Mayor Kirk] said
he hopes to see us back in the future and that he was very moved by the
invocation."
With the Texas state star hanging over the chambers, resembling the pentacle
hanging from our necks, we stood and listened to Bryan's invocation How
appropriate that this happened here in Dallas.
During the Pledge of Allegiance many broke into tears of relief and
realization of what we were experiencing first hand..
Then three who were on the agenda to express their indifference to our
'prayer' spoke.. When they were through the mayor said, and I paraphrase, he
and the city council are not in the business of choosing religions.
He [Mayor Kirk] said he hopes to see us back in the future and that he was
very moved by the invocation.
Everything feels changed today. We [Pagans] claimed our rights to
equal representation. We held our ground with dignity and justice for all.
We were magick.
All major media was represented.
Here is the invocation that will be heard around the world again. What a
blessing this day has been. Blessed be this harvest season.
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Invocation by HP Bryan Lankford
Mother Goddess, Father God: we thank you for life and the world we share. We
ask that you bless this council and the mayor with the wisdom to lead this
city into our tomorrow's, that it may flourish in harmony and prosperity.
We ask this city be transformed with the harmony and balance that faith in a
greater power brings.
Just as the ancient alchemists felt the elements of life were air, fire,
water and earth, the elements of spiritual alchemy are Honesty, Love,
Compassion, and Faith.
We pray that our words and deeds be open and honest, without malice or
deceit, so others will always be able to trust our actions, believe our
words, and see that our motivations are pure. For honesty breeds trust, and
without trust all our actions are suspect.
May our souls be lit with the light of love which shines into the dark
corners of our being, removing the darkness of hatred, anger and prejudice,
so no one ever need fear for their safety or be made to feel shame for their
race, religion or lifestyle. For where love shines, darkness cannot
find hold.
May we show compassion for those whose
lives are not as easy as our own. Let our hearts see that the spirit inside
each of us comes from the same divine source and is, therefore, deserving of
dignity and respect no matter what the body's present condition. For
only with self respect can one find the strength to improve their condition.
We pray that our lives are grounded in faith because faith in something
greater than ourselves gives us the power to aspire to be more than we are,
reaching beyond our human limitations to propel the human spirit to new
levels.
Faith brings us the comfort of divine planning, letting us understand all
that happens, happens for a reason, a purpose which we, from our limited
perspective, may have trouble seeing, but the Divine sees the outcome of
every event and knows why each event must occur.
We pray for Honesty, Love, Compassion, and Faith, that our spirits be
transformed into golden spirits, shining with the light of the Divine.
We ask this of deity in whatever form each of us perceives it.
So may it be
Bryan Lankford
Interfaith Director
Betwixt & Between
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I encourage you all to remember the concept of 'together we can do
everything', it is not mere words, it is the proof that this harvest is
based on. Begin building your community centers. Today proves this
works.
Maeven~'Never again the burning times' survives as more than a mantra for
only as long as it is defended by deed.
Betwixt & Between was founded in 1997 to provide a meeting place where
people could come together to share, celebrate, rejoice, and learn in an
atmosphere of understanding, respect, and civility. Betwixt & Between is
located at 813 Exposition Ave, Dallas, Texas, 75226 (Mapsco 46K). For more
information about Betwixt & Between and its programs, call (214) 821-3340 or
visit Betwixt & Between's web site at:
http://www.betwixt.org.
Maeven Eller
Various articles on the Dallas City Council Pagan
Invocation:
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/179071_wiccan_27met.A.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/179520_wiccan_28met.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:ARL44/1:ARL440927100.html
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/4EE4FDEBB84B406A8625696E003A1555?OpenDocument
http://www.tpao.org
http://www.witchvox.com
http://www.wbap.com/pages/20081.asp
Potter Charms
Modern-Day Witches
Filed at 3:30 a.m. EDT, By The
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- He's a charmer, that Harry Potter. The adolescent
hero of J.K. Rowling's series rides a broom, owns an Invisibility Cloak and
magic wand and has cast a spell over young readers the world over.
He's got modern-day witches enchanted, too.
``For once, the witches aren't ugly old hags,'' said Michael Darnell, a
39-year-old computer programmer from Winnipeg, Canada, who has been a
practicing witch for 25 years. ``For once they're the protagonists rather
than the villains.''
Darnell is one of the thousands of North American adherents of Wicca, a
faith linked to witchcraft. No one knows how many people practice Wicca, but
estimates run from 300,000 to more than 1.5 million people following what
they describe as a nature-based belief system that existed in Europe before
Christianity.
However, witchcraft has always had a darker image in popular culture, often
linked to devil worship and decried by some Christians as an affront to God.
From Shakespeare to Salem, witches have usually been portrayed as evil,
curse-casting troublemakers.
Not in Harry's case. He and his friends go
to school to learn witchcraft and have all kinds of magical adventures along
the way. In his world, the non-witches are the weird ones -- a welcome
change for witchcraft practitioners.
``If somebody wants to write about us as being fun, interesting, magical
people, we don't mind that at all,'' said Jane Raeburn, 35, a writer in
Wells, Maine, who has been practicing Wicca for 10 years.
The Potter books -- the fourth volume is scheduled for release July 8 --
don't actually deal with the philosophical precepts of Wicca or any specific
religious tradition.
Instead, Harry and company fight the good fight against the forces of evil
aided by the stereotypical pop culture notions of witchery -- flying brooms,
magical instruments, spells.
That in itself has been enough to concern some Christian parents. Last year,
the series topped the list of books that parents or certain groups tried to
have taken off shelves, according to the American Library Association.
The books were removed in some schools after parents raised concerns that
the series was promoting witchcraft.
Modern-day witches find that laughable.
``They don't have anything to do with Wicca,'' said Patricia Allgeier, 57, a
witch in Springfield, Mo. ``It's this generation's version of 'The Wizard of
Oz.'''
That's not to say witches don't have any concerns about the books. Anything
that promotes stereotypes, even positively, can make it harder for Wiccans
to deal with non-Wiccans.
``It portrays witches in positive ways ... but it does not portray my
religious beliefs,'' said Chad Anctil of the Witches' League for Public
Awareness.
A big admirer of the Harry Potter books, Anctil loves the writing and the
entertaining stories. But he said ``it is difficult for the religion to be
taken seriously when books like this portray it as magic.''
The common thread that draws witches and non-witches to the book is its
engaging storytelling, which explores the difficulties of growing up and has
kids dealing with issues of right and wrong -- and standing up for what they
believe.
``What you're talking about are the choices people make,'' said Christina
Aubin, parenting coordinator for the Clearwater, Fla.-based Web site, The
Witches' Voice. Her 10-year-old daughter is a huge Harry Potter fan.
``It teaches her to think for herself,'' Aubin said. ``I don't think that's
a bad idea.''
NEW YORK (AP) -- Astronomers have discovered an asteroid flying through
space that could crash into the earth in 2022, The New York Times reported
today.
Although astronomers say the chance of a collision is about 1 in 1 million,
more observations are needed to better calculate the asteroid's orbit and
rule out a collision, the Times said.
The asteroid, 2000 BF19, is the fifth one discovered in the last two years
that might collide with the earth. It is about a half-mile wide and could do
tremendous damage to part of the earth if it struck but probably would not
cause planetwide destruction, the Times said.
The asteroid was first spotted by three astronomers led by Dr. James Scotti
using the Spacewatch Telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona on Jan. 28. It was
tracked until Feb. 3, when it disappeared. The same day, the International
Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center of Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., announced its discovery without mentioning
a possible collision.
The possibility of a collision was raised Monday by Dr. Benny Peiser, who
runs an Internet letter on astronomy, the Cambridge-Conference Network. The
current collision calculations were done by an astronomer at Pisa University
in Italy, Peiser said.
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