there is an excellent collection of papers about this matter on Phil Hine's
site, i don't have the link to hand right now as i'm very much "in transit"
materially, but i think he is now hosted on zen.com
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Holland" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: Witching Culture
> I remember some quite virulent homophobic attidudes in the same circles;
> wicca/paganism is a fertility religion therefore you can't be gay and
pagan.
> I havnt noticed it so much these days, but I have heard second hand that
it
> still happens. It seems to be more accepted in shamanic paths, where the
> gender/sexuality blurring seems more acceptable.
> Tim
>
> > I'd been under the impression about for years that biological female =
> > goddess worshipper = successful at reproduction... does that sound like
it
> > makes any sense? I guess what I'm saying was that in the 1980's, when I
> > started mixing with Wiccan-types - mostly they were about 10 years older
> > than I was and they had children - they kinda believed (and
> > conveyed to me)
> > that Wicca and Goddess stuff was *about* reproduction... I think
> > its called
> > "biological determinism" these days......
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