You are very incorrect on one item...not a single person has said he was wrong for expressing his beliefs. Every person I have seen that has commented on this has stated that he has a right to his beliefs. What people have an issue with is what his said...not the fact that he said it. Notice that the people that are crying that this is a 1st amendment issue are the same people that support Hobby Lobby and other fundamentalist Christian owned stores in having the right, as a company, to not cover birth control or abortion. They are the same people that cheered when MSNBC let Martin Bashir go because of his comments against Conservative Goddess Sarah Palin. So why is ok for MSNBC to let Martin Bashir go for comments made against a single person, who is fair game, but it is wrong for A&E to do the same thing when Duck Dynasty Doofus gets canned for disparaging the entire LGBT community? The problem is that we have a large group of people in this country who are moronic sheeple that are clueless when it comes to what the Constitution mean...or what an original thought is for that matter as they can't seem to say anything outside what their fascist masters tell them to say. The puppet master at Fox and on shows like Rush Limbaugh are manipulating this into the feeding frenzy of stupidity it is and conservative supporters are eating it right up.

You should also learn from their successes Chuck...otherwise you are only getting 1\2 the picture.

I think this is a great article too. I see the pagan community (as a whole and yes I am generalizing) as a group of petulant teenagers who skwak loudly when someone more experienced than they are dares to correct them or say they are doing something wrong...you know...the (even though you have decades more experience than i do), how dare you tell me what to do. When leaders rise up to their calling, they often also handed targets for their backs. Then there is this entitlement attitude and the general thought that people are owed when our clergy and elders provide rather than being grateful for it and contributing to clergy and elders to help them out. There was an article on Witchvox about leader burnout and I think this article would be a good companion to this. Just because we have the "right" to think this piece of stone is the creator of the universe doesn't mean that one is necessarily right. We should listen to what our elders have to say and learn from them rather than taking the I know it all attitude of a petulant teen.