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Isn't this lovely. The sign of the Devil is alive and doing well in America. If George W. Bush is really chosen by God then how do explain this travesty?
I quite like the excuse that it is a money issue.
Render unto Caeser indeed.
Witches across America are rejoicing after the Veterans Administration agreed to permit service members to have their graves at military cemeteries marked with a Wiccan symbol known as a pentacle or pentagram.
"This is a very important victory for natural religion, not only in America but around the world," a prominent Wiccan priestess, the Reverend Selena Fox of the Wisconsin-based Circle Sanctuary, said.
The VA agreed to put the symbol on headstones after several adherents of the faith filed a federal lawsuit charging that they and their family members were being discriminated against in violation of the religion clauses of the Constitution.
"The government acted to settle in the interest of the families concerned and to spare taxpayers the expense of further litigation," a spokesman for the VA, Matt Burns, said in a statement sent by e-mail.
One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Karen DePolito, complained that she was unable to get the Wiccan symbol on the marker for the grave of her husband, Jerome Birnbaum, who served in the Korean War.
Asked about the settlement, Ms. DePolito said, "Every so often we Americans get it right." She said she and her husband, a longtime public high school teacher in New York, were involved in the local pagan community between 1987 and 2002, when he retired.
Bless you, my hefty hypocrites,
Father Mo
I quite like the excuse that it is a money issue.
Render unto Caeser indeed.
Witches across America are rejoicing after the Veterans Administration agreed to permit service members to have their graves at military cemeteries marked with a Wiccan symbol known as a pentacle or pentagram.
"This is a very important victory for natural religion, not only in America but around the world," a prominent Wiccan priestess, the Reverend Selena Fox of the Wisconsin-based Circle Sanctuary, said.
The VA agreed to put the symbol on headstones after several adherents of the faith filed a federal lawsuit charging that they and their family members were being discriminated against in violation of the religion clauses of the Constitution.
"The government acted to settle in the interest of the families concerned and to spare taxpayers the expense of further litigation," a spokesman for the VA, Matt Burns, said in a statement sent by e-mail.
One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Karen DePolito, complained that she was unable to get the Wiccan symbol on the marker for the grave of her husband, Jerome Birnbaum, who served in the Korean War.
Asked about the settlement, Ms. DePolito said, "Every so often we Americans get it right." She said she and her husband, a longtime public high school teacher in New York, were involved in the local pagan community between 1987 and 2002, when he retired.
Bless you, my hefty hypocrites,
Father Mo
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