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Title: War Widow Dedicates Wiccan Plaque Symbol
Source: AP
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Published: Dec 2, 2006
Author: War Widow Dedicates Wiccan Plaque Symbol
Post Date: 2006-12-03 00:08:29 by innieway
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Views: 194
Comments: 3

Associated Press/AP Online

RENO, Nev. - The widow of a soldier killed in Afghanistan saw a Wiccan symbol placed on a memorial plaque for her husband Saturday, after fighting the federal government for more than a year over the emblem.

Roberta Stewart, widow of Sgt. Patrick Stewart, and Wiccan leaders said it was the first government-issued memorial plaque with a Wiccan pentacle - a five-pointed star enclosed in a circle. More than 50 friends and family dedicated the plaque at Northern Nevada Veterans Cemetery, about 30 miles east of Reno.

They praised Gov. Kenny Guinn for his role in getting the Nevada Office of Veterans Services to issue the plaque in September. The agency cited its jurisdiction over maintenance of the state cemetery.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes more than 30 symbols, including more than a dozen variations of the Christian cross and the atomic whirl used by atheists, but not the pentacle.

VA officials have said they are rewriting rules for approving emblems, but the process requires a public comment period.

Last month, Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued the VA on behalf of Stewart and others for its refusal to include the Wiccan emblem.

"Our people are on the front line in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it's not right they're not getting equal treatment," said the Rev. Selena Fox, one of the Wiccan organizers of the event.

About 1,800 active-duty service members identify themselves as Wiccans, according to 2005 Defense Department statistics. Wiccans worship the Earth and believe they must give to the community. Some consider themselves "white" or good witches, pagans or neo-pagans.

Stewart and four other soldiers died Sept. 25, 2005, when their Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan.


Poster Comment:

If they're on the lines fighting and dying, they damn sure should be allowed to have their emblem on their graves... Religious Free Exercise is the one last thing this country still allows pretty much unimpeded. When they take that from us we're totally fucked, and it'll damned sure be time for the revolution...

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#1. To: innieway (#0)

But how will the nation cope with this? Why, I can feel my faith in Jesus collapsing right now, as I type this. Hopefully, there will be some brave GOPER or "conservative" pundit out there to make this a national issue that we all can "debate" as if it actually matters one hill of beans. Meanwhile the "liberals" and the "Conservatives" can divide up the spoils and live like Caligulas while laughing their asses off at us.

Burkeman1  posted on  2006-12-03   0:40:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: innieway (#0)

Wasn't the five-pointed star in a circle routinely painted on US aircraft?

Steel  posted on  2006-12-03   12:16:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Burkeman1 (#1)

But how will the nation cope with this? Why, I can feel my faith in Jesus collapsing right now, as I type this.

Be afraid. Be very afraid of them Wiccans. This national security problem first came to my attention when I visited Salem. That's a town in a State called Massachusetts. A very nice museum there provided a re-enactment of the witch trials, which apparently did not go on long enough. The exit was a bit longish, and required a tour of the basement, full of Wiccan and Warlock propaganda, including lifesize wax figures of some very attractive witches. They were not inflatable. Also on display were excerpts from Wiccan philosophy, such as the law of threefold return and something like the golden rule: "an it harm none, do what thou wilt." Shameless. I'm tellin' ya, the Wiccans want to control all of us, and they would, too, if the Jews hadn't gotten there first. The Wiccans make me grateful to be living under the thumb of an all-encompassing Jewish conspiracy.

leveller  posted on  2006-12-03   23:06:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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