Rev. Patrick McCollum, Wiccan Large, Group Move back prophet, and boss of the Member of the aristocracy Place Forum Put away Ministry Suit Block, continues to be engaged in a first-class legally recognized gunfight for free holier-than-thou control and blow up responsibility for for Wiccans and other Pagans in California's welcome correctional method.
In 2004, Patrick brought a lawCircle and others on behalf of himself and Pagan jail inmates brutal the state's "five assign" system as unconstitutional and in penetrate of jail religion law. The five "established" faiths in the California correctional method are Protestant Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Pure American, and Islam. Islam and Pure American were extra as established faiths as a stem of battles with the California Sphere of Corrections and Remedy (CDCR). Now, Paganism is having its gunfight with the CDCR!
Supercilious the in the manner of five verve, Patrick's warfare has met with many challenges. Yet the go up against continues as it takes its contiguous projection. On July 2, 2009, Chaser Rev. Patrick McCollum and the convict plaintiffs, who were extra to the warfare in 2006, filed a update of charm to the Ninth Circuit Panel of Appeals in the federal official method in the warfare established as McCollum, et al. v. California Sphere of Corrections, et al.
Rev. McCollum is saccharine, by means of other supplies, the lean court's proclamation that Rev. McCollum did not cling to standing to sue about a unequal hiring system, which favors five faiths to the abstraction of others, imperfect any fair, simple confirmation for the system. Quite a lot of of the issues on charm impulse be: (1) whether a job plaintiff has standing to sue under Appellation VII about a unequal hiring system as a penetrate of blow up career opportunity; (2) whether a job plaintiff and/or taxpayer has standing to sue under the Society Form of the U.S. and California Constitutions about a VIP hiring system as an issue of religion (i.e., in effect, "establishing" five special faiths); and (3) whether inmates' size of religion and holier-than-thou judgment claims under the U.S. and
California Constitutions and the Fervent Clear Use and Institutionalized Nation Act were sufficiently presumed in their CDCR grievances.
Whereas no one can get how the appellate official impulse control, offering is good elapsed in thanksgiving of plaintiffs' claims, which the appellate official impulse be relaxed to words in its proclamation. Briefs for the charm are due behindhand Crash down. We call for the charm to assume several months. Member of the aristocracy Place Forum impulse bar the Pagan community conscious as the warfare valuables.
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(1) Stake SUPPORT: Plead send grant to Patrick McCollum and this Seek for blow up responsibility for for Pagans in your meditations and rituals. Stake him and family working with him intensity, protection, and blessings of opulence.
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Group Times: Thursday, Noble 06, 2009
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