Psychic Wins Battle Over Permit


	Psychic Wins Battle Over Permit

wiccantexan

10-6-2009 11:36 PM

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psychic, business, legal

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10-7-2009 10:42 AM

Jorjor

I always felt that the laws prohibiting fortune telling (some communities have them, some don't) ought to have been equally applied to churches, since they're in the business of trying to predict what's going to happen to people when they die.

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