So I was helping my girlfriend with a paper on Religion last night and we were discussing Wicca and the 1986 court case came up.  The one that officially recognized Wicca as a religion.  According to the case, a prisoner was charging that he was being discriminated against because he was (is) Wiccan.  He was not allowed to (as a prisoner) obtain the items needed to practice his religion.  Now I wonder if this would fly today.  I mean think about it, imagine a Catholic was told he couldn’t have a bible in jail, or a Muslim could not have the Qur’an or a floor covering for prayer, or one of the other major religions being denied what is required to practice actively.  All hell would break loose.  I don’t mean to say if some guy says he needs a knife or a gun to actively practice his religion in jail that we should give it to him.  But put him in a padded room and let him go at it.  I mean he’ll get tired out eventually.  But in all seriousness, I don’t want to think of the consequences.  I was speaking to one of my friends about it and they made an off color comment to the effect of, if we took away a muslims right to practice in jail that they’d blow something else up.  Read more