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VA will allow Wiccan symbol on gravestones
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 23, 2007 11:03pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Media | Newspaper - USA Today |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 03:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Wiccans who served in the U.S. military will be allowed to have a pentacle emblem engraved on government-issued tombstones and memorials under a legal agreement announced Monday with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Stewart, other veterans' widows and members of the Wicca faith had asked the VA to officially recognize the pentacle — a five-pointed star inside a circle — as an "emblem of faith" and include it with 38 other symbols for use on government headstones.
They filed a lawsuit in November in Wisconsin federal court alleging the VA stalled for a decade in recognizing the emblem. The Wiccans argued that the VA was violating their freedoms of speech and religion and right to due process. |
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