On Good Friday, Planned Parenthood's Web site touted an inspirational message for its supporters: "Takin' It to the Church!" It's illustrated by the graphic at left—a cross-less church dwarfed by huge morning-after pills.

The article by Heather Merriam—apparently the same Heather Merriam who has such respect for Christendom that she touted the post-election map deriding America as "Jesusland"—tells of Planned Parenthood's turning houses of prayer into temples of Moloch:

Planned Parenthood of Central Washington (PPCW), headquartered in Yakima, has express health centers located in what you might call nontraditional locations. At an express health center, clients who are short on time and do not require a table examination can quickly pick up their birth control medication or get contraceptive advice.

Two are located in churches. Both the United Methodist and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) have PPCW express health centers.

In order to reach out to large, undocumented populations in rural areas, getting a federal grant wasn't enough. PPCW had to think out of the box.

These churches are in small communities like White Swan, where there are many migrant farm workers who would otherwise have no access to reproductive health care.

The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the [Birth Control] Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

Setting up express health centers in churches is only one of the out-of-the-box ideas that have been hatched by PPCW's clergy group, an advisory team made up of 12 religious leaders. The group performs many services for the PPCW staff and clientele, including weighing in on ethical questions and blessing new health centers.

If you've seen the movie The Craft, leafed through the New Age section of a bookstore or checked out any of these TV series — Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, or Charmed — then you've probably heard the words Wicca, witch, and/or "magick" used regularly. In the process, you may have wondered what Wiccans do, if a Wiccan and a witch are the same thing, and why there seems to be so much fuss about this magic stuff....

One of the best symbols that reflect Wiccan ideals, and the most often misunderstood one, is the pentagram. The five points on the pentagram represent the "five" elements — earth, air, fire, water, and spirit. All of these energies are harmoniously placed within a circle — an emblem of cycles, time, "sacred space," and the "Source of all things." Unlike the upside-down pentacle often displayed in movies as a sign of evil, the pentagram is the perfect image of everything that Wiccans hope to obtain — a sense of self in the greater scheme of things, an awareness of others and the earth, and an openness to welcoming "Sacred energies" into our lives on a daily basis.