Pagan police officers granted right to festival holidays.  

I think it is only fair. If Christians get Christmas off.... I think there should be freedom no matter what your beliefs. If they celebrate by dancing and drinking beer, so be it!

I am so glad to see that people in some areas are lightning up about this subject. It has gone from overly extreme to making it a joke. Born agains a overly religious folks be damned! I think people should be responsible and respectful of others beliefs. I glad this was enjoyed and something positive.

Does that mean the pagan police have to work on the Christian holidays?

I wonder why this is tagged mature content?


on subject, yes, this is good. I think though it may be open to a bit of abuse, as there are so many festivals. if someone was really cheeky they could try and get the best part of a full months worth of days off in a year. there's Solar festivals, Agricultural festivals, and at least two lunar festivals a month.

the vast majority of these can easily be celebrated around a working day, but it's nice that people will have the opportunity to have more flexibility, say with the Solstices, where many people celebrate by getting up early and watching the sunrise. or in winter, a lot of people are in work by the time the Sun shows up.


this is good. I just hope no one abuses it.

Good that you have a sense of humor.

It actually works out well when any 24 hour entity allows different faith groups different time off. If the people that want Saturday off can get it because they're Jewish or 7th Day Adventists while Christians get Sunday Off (except the 7th people), then great! I was a Correction Officer and wishing I didn't have to take Christmas off because of seniority and because of my family celebrating Christmas. If I could have had my 4 main ones for my religion off, the 2 Solstices and the 2 Equinoxes instead of Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, that would have relieved the pressure of the Correctional Facility. Also I would prefer the full moons off to Sunday or Saturday which would help them out, too. People were constantly fighting over Sunday off. But my family is Christian, so they wouldn't have understood and I would have never gotten any holidays with them.

Diversity Rocks! Hiring people of different faiths allows for different days off.

Now about their funny comment. Does it dawn on them that people of Wiccan and other faiths meditate, pray, heal others, etc.? Obviously not. Oh well besides what's wrong with dancing? Around a fire or otherwise? Also many people obstain from alcohol, at least amoung the people I know of my faith. Oh well. Maybe with acceptance will come education. One can only hope.