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For a third day in a row, Bay Area folks will be deprived of a roaring fire due to the wood-burning ban still in effect. See, it's illegal for us to burn wood, pellets or manufactured logs in fireplaces, stoves or other wood-burning devices because of all the pollution the logs emit.
But don't tell that to a local neo-pagan pantheist who fired off this wicked email to Bay Area Air Quality Management District employees and members of its board of directors.
"I will NOT be deprived of my constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of religion by bureaucrats looking for more ways to control even more aspects of our lives ... I'm claiming an exemption because this ban violates my right to practice my religion, a right that is guaranteed by the Constitution ... When the government controls everything we do, say and think, that's fascism."
When all else fails, the yule log might do the trick, neo-pagan pantheists.
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So does that mean that Amici's pizza won't be able to cook pizzas in their wood fired oven?
Nuked pizza sucks.
I say to the air quality folks, f-them! If they ban wood burning on Christmas day, they will be hated upon for a long time. Opening gifts next to a wood burning fire is tradition.
If the ban were related to pollution, it would allow use of EPA-certified woodstoves, the kind which were built to limit particulate emissions. Unfortunately the BAAQMD ignored established practices from areas where wood-burning is much more common and simply banned everything. I'm with the Pagans on this, Godwin be damned.
I take the bus to work instead of driving. Can I use that as an offset and have a fire tonight?
Just joking, but trying to point out that it seems kind of odd to ban this one specific thing.
Let's go to Ocean Beach! Wood burning still legal and not under the jurisdiction of the state!
Seems like the Native Americans tried to use that argument so they could keep using peyote. They failed. Good luck, pagans.
I love a spare the air day while it's raining. Why not just make it a spare the air year? or month? that's the direction things seem to be going in...
Neo-pagan pantheists??? Oh Gods...