This is perhaps the most awesome piece of legal news I’ve heard in a while. The Americans United for Separation of Church and State have finally settled their case against the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs:
Bush Administration Agrees To Approve Wiccan Pentacle For Veteran Memorials
For those that missed where this all started, the Washington Post covered the story last July:
At the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the small town of Fernley, Nev., there is a wall of brass plaques for local heroes. But one space is blank. There is no memorial for Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart.
That’s because Stewart was a Wiccan, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has refused to allow a symbol of the Wicca religion — a five-pointed star within a circle, called a pentacle — to be inscribed on U.S. military memorials or grave markers.
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