i take umbrage with them calling wicca (UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE)

a 'neo-pagan cult'. it's NOT an effing CULT AND it's been around a LOT LOT LOT longer than judiasm and christianity and islam and the lot

at any rate, the armed services is now 'allowing' pentacles on headstones (and of course it's about time) in military cemeteries

'Wiccans' win place in US military cemeteries

Adherents to the neo-pagan cult Wicca soon will be permitted to place their symbol the pentacle -- a five-pointed star inscribed inside a circle -- on headstones in military cemeteries, US officials said Monday.
After months of legal wrangling, the US Department of Veterans Affairs agreed to allow Wiccans to place the symbol on headstones, as do adherents to the Christian, Muslim and Jewish and other faiths. The policy change will go into effect in the next few months, officials said.
"VA will be adding the pentacle to its list of approved emblems of belief that will be engraved on government-provided markers," said Matt Burns a spokesman for the federal agency...........

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a MUCH better article where 1) they don't call wicca a CULT and 2) they mention how wicca is sometimes MISTAKEN for devil worship

Use of Wiccan Symbol on Veterans’ Headstones Is Approved
By NEELA BANERJEE
Published: April 24, 2007
WASHINGTON, April 23 — To settle a lawsuit, the Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to add the Wiccan pentacle to a list of approved religious symbols that it will engrave on veterans’ headstones..................
..........Though it has many forms, Wicca is a type of pre-Christian belief that reveres nature and its cycles. Its symbol is the pentacle, a five-pointed star, inside a circle.
Until now, the Veterans Affairs department had approved 38 symbols to indicate the faith of deceased service members on memorials. It normally takes a few months for a petition by a faith group to win the department’s approval, but the effort on behalf of the Wiccan symbol took about 10 years and a lawsuit, said Richard B. Katskee, assistant legal director for Americans United.
The group attributed the delay to religious discrimination. Many Americans do not consider Wicca a religion, or hold the mistaken belief that Wiccans are devil worshipers...............