This is America. These people fought and died for their religion, even though it isn’t my religion.
I think their religion should be represented as long as it doesn’t interfere with rights of others, and if it done so that the solemn nature of the cemetery is preserved. If it is cemetery of a particular religion, then no you don’t have a right to be represented. However, if it is a national non denomination noncemetery, then yes.
Which is why I made the comment about Jedi. Nearly as many people in England listed their religion as "Jedi" or "The Force" as did list it as "Hindu" on their most recent census. Should England therefore give the same respect to a sci-fi movie invention as Christianity?
If you think any of these people fought and died for Wicca, I have a bridge here in NY that you might be interested in taking off my hands.
When you enter the military, you should be requested to put a religious affiliation in your file in the event that you are killed in action. If this soldier didn’t list ‘wiccan’, then his family doesn’t get to impose their religious agenda onto the US military via the corpse of a fallen soldier. Since there is no way to prove after the fact that this was the soldiers intent, this is basically appeasement after the fact.
To avoid this in the future, it should be unmarked unless the service person requests a specific religious symbol to be put on his/her headstone or dogtags. If the person changes faiths, or just loses their faith, then they should change in on their personnel file just like they would if they got divorced and wanted to remove their ex- from getting death benefits.
My point was that soon they, too, will be equally allowed - and from a legal standpoint, why not?
Satan's Graveyard - got a nice ring to it, eh?
Some goes for the followers of that L. Ron Hubbard crackpot as well.
I wouldn’t want to be buried next to one of these cultists; would you?
Agreed. “I ain’t got no beef” with Wiccans. Some of my best friends have followed Wiccan ceremonial forms (I’m not one for ceremonial religion, not matter what label people put on it), and I’ve attended a party of two that I can’t complain about. By all of this I’m saying that I know wicca is a serious religion—at least to those who follow it—and when a Wiccan goes off to die for his or her country, God Bless Them (or as they would say, Blessed Be).