Pagans want to sit alongside Christians, Jews and Muslims on a body which influences how religion is taught in Plymouth schools. Practising Pagan Laura Watters, from St Budeaux, has written to Plymouth City Council, Devon County Council and Cornwall County Council asking for a place on each authority’s Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE).

Mrs Watters has even met Cornish council chiefs in Truro to discuss the matter, and all three councils say they are willing to include the issue in talks. (more…)

Mocksville, NC - William Russell Shaver never thought that the MySpace page he shares with his wife would get him into trouble.

But it did.

Last year, he lost his job as a high-school bus driver for Davie County Schools and was asked to leave the Cooleemee Volunteer Fire Department, where he was a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician. (more…)