I am not a pagan, but I respect their natural right to worship as they see fit. Why do so many in the patriot community give lip service to liberty, but would curtail the liberty of others if given the chance?

"The error seems not sufficiently eradicated that the operations of the mind as well as the acts of the body are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782. ME 2:221


"The error seems not sufficiently eradicated that the operations of the mind as well as the acts of the body are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782. ME 2:221


"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously
reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and
his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right
to intermeddle." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1813.

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the
propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful
and tyrannical." --Thomas Jefferson: Statute of Religious
Freedom, 1779.

"Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man
and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or
his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach
actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign
reverence that act of the whole American people which declared
that their Legislature should "make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and
State." --Thomas Jefferson to Danbury Baptists, 1802.

"Our particular principles of religion are a subject of
accountability to God alone." --Thomas Jefferson to Miles King,
1814.

"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions
more than our opinions in physics or geometry." --Thomas
Jefferson: Statute of Religious Freedom, 1779.