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Jason Pitzl-Waters on Dec 20th 2008 at 3:19 pm Uncategorized

Celebrating the Livingston Parish Win

Back in the beginning of October I reported that Wiccan Cliff Eakin had been successful in his efforts to have a local anti-fortune telling ordinance overturned in Livingston Parish, LA. Now MagickTV has produced a four-part series that features interviews with Eakin and his lawyer, and includes footage of the party held for the official signing of the settlement papers (and featuring Raymond Buckland as an official witness).

Here are links to all four episodes: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Kudos to the MagickTV crew for doing this important primary-source journalism and creating a document of this win for the broader Pagan community.

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5 responses so far

  • http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2010/04/the-psychic-wars-continue.html The Wild Hunt » The Psychic Wars Continue

    [...] ongoing enforcement of outdated, constitutionally unsound, and religiously biased laws against performing psychic or fortune-telling services for money [...]

  • http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2010/05/polysectarian-monotheistic-prayer-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html The Wild Hunt » Polysectarian Monotheistic Prayer and other Pagan News of Note

    [...] were taken to court by a local Wiccan, defended the law against the advice of their lawyer, and then lost? Well it looks like Perry Rushing, chief of operations for the Sheriff’s Office, is on the same [...]

  • http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2010/05/a-message-from-the-louisiana-alliance-of-wiccans.html The Wild Hunt » A Message from the Louisiana Alliance of Wiccans

    [...] Alliance of Wiccans and Gryphon’s Nest Campground (owned/run by Cliff Eakin, the man who successfully challenged Livingston Parish’s anti-fortune-telling ordinance). I reproduce the proclamation, in full, below. Once again, the headlines in Livingston Parish, [...]

  • http://newoldtraditions.com/2010/05/08/psychic-as-swindler-at-what-point-is-fortunetelling-fraud/ PSYCHIC AS SWINDLER?: At what point is fortunetelling fraud? « THESE NEW OLD TRADITIONS

    [...] all reminds me of what’s going on in Livingston Parish, LA where first an anti-fortunetelling law was finally overturned (youtube video included), followed by a group of Christians protesting a pagan festival set to [...]

  • http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2010/06/quick-notes-fortunetelling-laws-ali-sibat-and-vodun-activism.html The Wild Hunt » Quick Notes: Fortunetelling Laws, Ali Sibat, and Vodun Activism

    [...] cases that overturned anti-fortunetelling ordinances often did so on religious grounds, but this case didn’t pursue a religious angle, and I thought it would suffer because of [...]