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Article: PAGANS' BENEFIT SHOT DOWN ST. JUDE HOSPITAL RESCINDS PERMISSION TO USE CHARITY'S NAME.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2005
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Byline: Deborah Frazier, Rocky Mountain News
Pagans on Colorado's plains wanted to give St. Jude Children's Research Hospital a helping hand but say they got a slap in the face.
The Secret Garden Coven planned to donate proceeds from a festival on Oct. 29 in Ramah, east of Colorado Springs, to the hospital.
But the hospital's attorney recently rescinded permission to use the St. Jude name in the crafts festival, dinner and midnight healing ritual.
"We have no opinion regarding your chosen path of spirituality in this land where freedom of religion and speech are honored," wrote St. Jude's attorney, Diane Spears.
"However, your event, regardless of its ...