Perhaps the best known form is Wicca, but not all pagans are Wiccan. My youngest daughter has a nature-based almost-Wiccan view of life and prefers the term "eclectic pagan". It would probably be viewed simply as neopaganism to most, but her focus is very much on nature and sanctity of all living things, and celebration of the lesser Sabbats (solstices and equinoxes).
We've always had a no-kill rule for spiders and perhaps that shaped her belief system, but she takes it to the extent of even the nastiest of creatures like aggressive hornets, very much in the sense of a far-eastern monk (think the cockroach on the table scene from "The Next Karate Kid" with Hillary Swank).
Paganism covers a wide variety of beliefs, which is why the DU group is called "Ancient Wisdom and Pagan Spirituality" - that's an excellent name for it. I knew a girl in high school who was the first pagan I had ever met. She just called called herself a "witch", but what she followed was essentially the Wiccan Rede, same as my daughter. But unlike my daughter, I don't recall her being vegetarian. I just don't remember either way. My youngest daughter has never touched meat of any kind - not even a taste.
A lot of people don't understand the pentacle and many mistake it for the sign of Satan (in which the star is point down). She's worn a pentacle around her neck for a couple of years now but for a long time she hid it in public. Now it is always prominently displayed, even in school. She's matured. It's no different from wearing a cross or a star of David, although it was only like 5 years ago or something that the Pentagon approved it as a symbol for grave stones at Arlington.
Still, Newt meant it in the context of "heathen". I really doubt he knows any other use for the word. He's just disgusting.
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