Although The ATC AQUARIAN TABERNACLECHURCH ll has had a presence in France since April 24, 1999, France does not recognize any religious groups, including Catholicism, and has lately implemented severe legislation against all minority faiths.
In March 1985, after Davis was hired as an expert witness by the Washington State Attorney General to educate a federal court in Tacoma about the tenets of the Wicca religion in a lawsuit brought by a prisner, the state department of corrections recognized Wicca as a religion worthy of recognition for inmates to practice.
Wicca was soon included in the department's first edition of the Handbook of Religious Belief: and Practices, which was intended for institutional chaplains.
The ATC was approved as the coordinating organization for the appointment of Wiccan delegates to the Inter faith Council of Washington (state) in 1992, and in 1992, Reverend Pete Davis was overwhelmingly chosen as the Inter faith Council of Washington's president.
He was reelected unanimously twice, the first time towards the conclusion of his first term.
The first outdoor circle of tall standing stones was constructed as a site of Wiccan worship inside the boundaries of the Twin Rivers Correctional Facility in October 2001.
The ATC officially integrated a young people's natural lore and woodcraft program, which had been started in 1999 as a local activity for the mother church, on April 2, 2001.
Spiral Scouts was founded as a worldwide organization in response to a desire for an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America's gender-biased, and often Christian, activities.
Spiral Scouts was created by an Internet online committee with over 500 members, foreshadowing its extraordinary acceptance and development in the Pagan community across the globe.
The curriculum was designed to be used as a vehicle to teach youngsters in a specific tradition by any minority religion-based community (or those 12 AR NDRAIOCHT FEIN: A DRUIDFELLOWSHIP (ADF) with no faith at all).
Any non-hostile religious community may use the software.
There are more than forty chartered Spiral Sconts organizations in the United States and Canada as of January 2002, nine months after Spiral Scouts "went public." The program is quickly expanding.
The ATC's Woolston-Steen Wiccan Theological Seminary, which opened in April 1998, obtained approval from the Washington State Department of Higher Education's Degree Authorization Board in August 2000 to provide academic degrees in Wiccan ministry under the agency's religions exemption rules.
