According to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the VA has just approved the pentacle for Wiccan Soldiers. Roberta Stewart, wife of slain Sgt. Patrick Stewart, hopes that his memorial plaque bearing the Wiccan symbol, will be ready in time for Memorial Day. Stewart was the first "out" Wiccan to die in combat.
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"I don't think that witchcraft is a religion." -- George W. Bush to ABCNEWS, June, 1999
"I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians, ... the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this [terrorist attack] happen." Jerry Falwell, 700 Club, 2001-SEP-13. 2
"[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. ~Pat Robertson
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing [June, 1999], Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., submitted a statement decrying Wicca, a nature-based faith, as irreligious and saying it should not be accommodated by the military.
In May {1999], Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., sent letters to base leaders at Fort Hood demanding that they cease permitting soldiers to engage in Wiccan celebrations. Barr's likened Wiccan practices to "Satanic rituals" and said the military needed to stop allowing Wiccan celebrations to occur on bases.
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