July 17, 2009
Police bosses have formally recognised pagans as a minority group and given the bobbies who practice witchcraft the same rights as other minority groups.
Coppers in the new Pagan Police Association will have guaranteed holiday on the faith's festival days around summer solstice and Halloween.
PC Andy Pardy, who set up the association, told Police Review magazine: "Paganism is not the new-age, tree-hugging fad that some people think it is. Nor is it a clandestine, horrible, evil thing.
"A lot of people think it is about dancing naked around a fire, but the rituals are not like that (shame, Guru thinks). It involves chanting, music, meditation and reading passages. For pagans, these have the same power as prayer does for Christians."
Altogether now... "political correctness gone mad". Guru is off to read the Daily Mail's coverage of this story.
Coppers in the new Pagan Police Association will have guaranteed holiday on the faith's festival days around summer solstice and Halloween.
PC Andy Pardy, who set up the association, told Police Review magazine: "Paganism is not the new-age, tree-hugging fad that some people think it is. Nor is it a clandestine, horrible, evil thing.
"A lot of people think it is about dancing naked around a fire, but the rituals are not like that (shame, Guru thinks). It involves chanting, music, meditation and reading passages. For pagans, these have the same power as prayer does for Christians."
Altogether now... "political correctness gone mad". Guru is off to read the Daily Mail's coverage of this story.
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If they get off for the solstice and Halloween, does that mean they work on Christmas?
Posted by class factotum | July 21, 2009 5:41 PM
Posted on July 21, 2009 17:41