entitled to be afforded a reasonably comparable funeral and burial as any body else. I guess our disagreement is in where one draws the line at "reasonably comparable." I refuse to give Wicca the respect some of its practitioners seek, or to take it seriously. How many people on the planet do you suppose were practicing Wicca before the 1980's? I'm guessing that the are more Jedi than there are Wiccans.
I guess our disagreement is in where one draws the line at "reasonably comparable." I refuse to give Wicca the respect some of its practitioners seek, or to take it seriously. How many people on the planet do you suppose were practicing Wicca before the 1980's? How many people were practicing Mormonism when the First Amendment was ratified?
Some angel gave some guy named Smith some Golden Tablets that later disappeared?
To non-Mormons, that sounds pretty silly, doesn't it?
No matter what your religion is, hundreds of millions of people all over the world consider your religion to be a false religion and nothing more than superstitious belief.
The issue here is not respecting a religion that you believe is silly.
The issue here is respecting the religious wishes of U.S. service-members that gave their lives for America.