Wiccan symbol okay'd by VA

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Monday April 23, 2007 · 4:33 PM PDT

2007/04/23 · 16:33

The relatives of fallen Wiccan soldiers have tried for years to get the VA to allow the Wiccan pentacle to be engraved on the headstones, the same as the symbols for other religions--major and obscure--are allowed. Conservative Christians in the military have fought this for years with no good reason. Today, after being challenged legally for over nine years, the VA agreed to allow this symbol in military cemetaries.

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What is your VA approved religion

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What is your VA approved religion

Sikh

0 votes

Rosicrucian

1 vote

Moravian

0 votes

Eckankar

0 votes

Serbian Orthodox

0 votes

Church of Religious Science

0 votes

Humanist

3 votes

Atheist

14 votes

Seicho-No-Ie

0 votes

Sufi

0 votes

Wiccan

10 votes

other, and I had no idea the VA allowed the emblems of so many other minority religions while giving Wiccans a hard time

14 votes

other, and I already knew

11 votes

just other

6 votes

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