{"id":24877,"date":"2011-03-03T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/judge_towns_treatment_of_pagans_may_be_discrimination\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:29:10","slug":"judge_towns_treatment_of_pagans_may_be_discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24877","title":{"rendered":"(Watershed Post) Judge: Town&#39;s treatment of pagans may be discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has found that a group of self-described witches may have gotten special treatment from the town of Catskill \u201d\u201c and not in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>In a strongly-worded decision issued on Tuesday, Judge George J. Pulver, Jr. of the Greene County Supreme County ruled that the town&#8217;s denial of a property tax exemption for the Maetreum of Cybele smacks of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsistent with [the Matreum&#8217;s] claim that it is being discriminated against, respondents&#8217; counsel attempts to hold petitioner to a higher standard than other religious organizations,\u201d\u009d Pulver wrote in the decision, a copy of which was obtained by the Watershed Post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watershedpost.com\/2011\/judge-towns-treatment-pagans-may-be-discrimination\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has found that a group of self-described witches may have gotten special treatment from the town of Catskill \u201d\u201c and not in a good way. In a strongly-worded decision issued on Tuesday, Judge George J. Pulver, Jr. of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24877\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,114,155,108,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-wicca-paganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}