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struggle4progress

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5. ... a 1982 city ordinance .. banned .. "clairvoyance, mesmerism,

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Sep 21, 2016, 10:29 PM

Sep 2016

spiritualism or any other practice or practices generally recognized to be unsound and unscientific" in addition to .. palm-reading ...
Astrology class is a gateway to Satanism, Canyonville residents say

... She found the ordinance under the consumer protection section of the city’s codes ...
Occult arts still illegal in Canyonville

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Occult arts still illegal in Canyonville, Oregon [View all] muriel_volestrangler Sep 2016 OP

Canyonville is 30 miles south of me. I try to avoid south county if at all possible. WheelWalker Sep 2016 #1

It's amazing how long bigoted ordinances like this LuvNewcastle Sep 2016 #2

... the Canyonville ordinance .. does have exemptions. The law itself .. allows folks to practice struggle4progress Sep 2016 #6

If I've done the math correctly... Act_of_Reparation Sep 2016 #3

And how about those wiseacres who transform bread and wine into Vogon_Glory Sep 2016 #4

... a 1982 city ordinance .. banned .. "clairvoyance, mesmerism, struggle4progress Sep 2016 #5

The self-proclaimed friends-of-science are outraged by a consumer-protection ordinance struggle4progress Sep 2016 #7

If we were to start banning "practices generally recognized to be unsound and unscientific" muriel_volestrangler Sep 2016 #8

Are you a libertarian? Is it your view that there should be no regulation of for-profit schemes, struggle4progress Sep 2016 #10

If you don't care what the people said, then your points seem a red herring muriel_volestrangler Sep 2016 #12

... trotsky Sep 2016 #9

I expect Canyonville cannot prevent Elona Wong from conducting free astrology classes struggle4progress Sep 2016 #11

"Enacted in 1982" at the height of the Satanism scare Lordquinton Sep 2016 #13

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