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[fabricdragon]

good news over the weekend!

http://www.circlesanctuary.org/liberty/veteranpentacle/20Nov06Update.htm

for those of you (there may be a few) who do not get it...

How would you feel if your very devout Jewish family member, who died in service to his country, couldnt get a Jewish emblem of faith on his memorial?
If they were Christian?but not the "right"

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[dana3]

That's the STATE memorial, which had already been approved.
Sorry to shoot your bubble, but the issue is and has always been the FEDERAL level, especially Veterans Affairs.

So he has his faith-sign on the state memorial. (Good that it's there. Appropriate. Should never have even been an item of discussion.)
It still isn't engraved on his headstone in the federal cemetary.

The battle continues ...

[fabricdragon]

oh i knew it wasnt the federal one, but its a step.
one more lever under the wall of ignorance and bigotry.

now we just need a few more levers.... as i said, score one. many, many to go.

[isabelladangelo]

I'm curious if there isn't more to the story...like the family didn't want to fill out paperwork that needed to be filled out in order to get the headstone approved type stuff...

[dana3]

Good guess, and usually true, but not in this case. This has been going on for ~2 years now. All paperwork has been done, all appeals have been pursued, and the widow Stewart and another widow have just filed suit before the US Supreme Court, backed by Americans United and the ACLU, to force equal representation on the headstones. Nope, this time the Paganii did it all correctly *and* by the book, and the FedGov was the dipstick.

Here's CNN's coverage of the lawsuit:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/11/13/widows.suit.ap/index.html

And yes, that *is* Selena looking pretty awful ...

[scypres]

From the CNN article:

"Wiccans worship the Earth and believe they must give to the community."

Ugghh. I don't think I have seen a good description of Wicca in the general media.

[fabricdragon]

well, its better than some! I take my small victories where i can get them.
besides, ANY religion reduced to sound bite level sounds dorky.