The public are already banished, aren't they?

As for being recognised, I think anyone with a weird belief needs recognition and careful surveillance!

I believe in shoes

They had been for a few years but i think they were allowed closer this year. I may be wrong but i think thats what i heard.

Right Karma.

I shall watch you (not in a weird way).

Me too.

A college i used to work in offered Druidism classes as part of their adult leisure courses. Now thats a way to spend a tuesday evening.

Holy sites banned?  That's a new one. 

That scared me, a bit!

*** watches even closer ***

I read that as, "A Colleague I used to work in"!

I doubt it.
Today's Druids claim the henge as a place of worship, but they actually have no real connection with Stonehenge; At the time Stonehenge was built, Druidism hadn't been developed, it was a Celtic tradition which came much later.
Good for them for achieving recognition and charitable status, though; it's about time we recognised all organised belief systems as equally valid (or equally invalid, depending on your point of view....).

There is a difference between the original Druids and the modern Druids (sometimes called Neo-Druids). It is alleged historically that the original Druids were not averse to human sacrifice. From Wiki:


An 18th century illustration of a wicker man, the form of execution that Caesar alleged the druids used for human sacrifice. From the "Duncan Caesar", Tonson, Draper, and Dodsley edition of the Commentaries of Caesar translated by William Duncan published in 1753.

Obviously forming the basis of the film.

I thought they had to reg as a religion for tax reasons?

You are correct that they benefit for tax purposes, but this is per a BBC article:

Phil Ryder, chairman of the trustees of the Druid Network told the BBC: "It's nice to have that official recognition. It's not why we applied originally.

"We applied because we were legally obliged to do so."

He said the organisation represented around 350 people who had paid £10 each for membership but referred to a BBC Inside Out investigation from 2003 which suggested that up to 10,000 people described themselves as druids.

He added: "You have to apply [for charitable status] if you're an organisation that is taking money off people because the Inland Revenue want to know what you're doing with it."