The Corpora of the SCA has this to say under Policy Decisions of the Board of
Directors:
Policy on Magic and Religion (June 1980)
The SCA shall neither establish nor prohibit any system of magic or religion
among its members. No one shall perform any religious or magical ceremony at an
officIal Society event or in associatIon wIth the name of the SCA in such a way
as to:
- Imply that the ceremony Is officially authorized, sponsored, or promulgated
by the SCA;
- Force participants or bystanders at a Society event, by direct or Indirect
pressure, to join the ceremony;
- Perform the ceremony in such a locatlon as to force others to participate
or observe whether they will or no;
- Cause religious, magical or psychic effects upon those who do not wish to
endure them;
- Invoke supernatural powers or gods to the political or social benefit or
detriment of any member of the SCA, the Society as a whole, or of any of Its
parts or branches.
Except as provided herein, neither the SCA (n)or any member acting in the name
of the Society, or any of its parts or branches, shall interrupt or interfere
with any other person's lawful ceremonies, nor shall an officer discriminate
against any member of the Society upon religious, magical, or psychic grounds,
and no member shall claim such Interference without speciflc and objective evidence.
Nothing In these laws shall be construed to forbid the performance by competent
representatives of religious, magical, or psychic groups or movements of
ceremonies separate from an official event of the Society with the intention of
benefiting the event and those gathered at It as a whole.
No combatant at an official Society event shall knowingly and deliberately use
any amulet or artifice of magical, religious, or psychic nature to achieve
thereby an advantage upon the field.
Recognition of official or unofficial religious, magical or psychic organizations
or individuals by the SCA, or any of its officers, parts, or branches, shall
not constitute acknowledgement of the religious, magical or psychic claims of
such groups or individuals.
