[50sDad]

Point up, or point down?

[trumandogz]

God Bless these Brave Men who gave their lives for the Freedom of Our Nation.

Heros.

[Zeroisanumber]

Good for them. They fought for our country, there’s no reason not to bury them under the symbol of the faith that they’ve chosen.

[dead]

Whatever they want is fine by me.

[Chena]

Wiccan symbol OK for soldiers' graves

And rightly so.

[bassmaner]

bump

[reagan_fanatic]

The only people who will care are the families and friends of the fallen soldiers. Though I might disagree with their beliefs, I salute their sacrifice to their country.

[GATOR NAVY]

The VA sought the settlement in the interest of the families involved and to save taxpayers the expense of further litigation, VA spokesman Matt Burns said. The agency also agreed to pay $225,000 in attorneys' fees and costs.

VA idiots. This should have been settled a long time ago. If you can put Wiccan on your dog tags, you can have a Wiccan symbol on your headstone.

[null and void]

Thank God! (Yes, I see the irony here)...

[Clemenza]

Why is this a problem? Not all of us bow to Jesus or Allah, you know.

[Wormwood]

Finally.

If a man is good enough to die for his country, he deserves to have his faith respected in this one, final gesture.

[wideawake]

How silly.

The term "Wiccan" is a made-up word, but is supposed to be an "ancient" variant of the word "witch" in Middle English.

So if "Wicca" has any meaning it refers to the pre-Christian pagan beliefs of English.

In that pre-Christian milieu the "pentacle" was not a known symbol.

It was introduced in the south of France in the 1300s by Christians who were playing at alchemy using symbols they found in Hebrew texts - and these symbols were not associated with pagan magic, but with the numerology of Kabbalah.

The symbol has absolutely no ties to the mythical nature paganism that "Wicca" supposedly is.

[Cvengr]

If it's good enough for the Son of God, and it's good enough for Batman and Superman,...then who can make any better of it?

or in those immortal words:

[PJ-Comix]

Sufism Reoriented...

Not to be confused with Sufism Disoriented.

[longtermmemmory]

Next your favorite sports teams!,

you favorite disney characters!,

why not your favorite film star! let those grieving you think you looked like that famous film star!

[jwalsh07]

Fine by me.

[sam_paine]

Phelps ain’t gonna like this.

[TexasChip]

"This settlement has forced the Bush Administration into acknowledging that there are no second class religions in America, including among our nation's veterans," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represented the Wiccans in the lawsuit.

That should read Democratically Controlled Congress instead of the Bush Administration. I do believe that Congress has oversight of the VA. In fact, there are whole committees (29 members-House and 15 members-Senate) with the requisite staff whose only job is oversight of the VA.

The Democratically Controlled Congress is obviously negligent in their oversight responsibilities.

It may be time for the House and Senate to have hearings to see why those committees can't do the simplist things. The Democrat heads of those committees need be brought before themselves to address these issues.

That said, I do not see why an expensive lawsuit had to be initiated to get the pentacle added to the approved list of 37 other symbols. Seems like a simple VA form could have handled it. Maybe one of the multitude of Democratically Controlled congress people or their staff assigned to oversight of the VA could take 10 minutes and come up with the form.

Have you seen the symbols that can be on the headstones now? I am surprised that corporations like McDonalds and Coke haven't gotten their logos added yet.

[RGPII]

http://www.circlesanctuary.org/liberty/veteranpentacle/

Found these photos of headstones and just found this thread after talking to someone about this this morning.