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Department of Veterans Affairs Backs Down, Allows Pentacles On Headstones
In March of 2006, I reported that the widow of a Nevada National Guardsman shot down in Afghanistan was trying to get permission from the Department of Veterans Affairs to have a pentacle engraved on her husband's headstone. Her request was denied.
Both the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed lawsuits against the Department of Veterans Affairs on behalf of families whose loved ones' headstones remained blank. The ACLU's suit involved three individuals and two churches. The DVA settled the suit brought by Americans United, an act which automatically settled the ACLU suit.
Under the terms of the settlement, which was reached April 23, the DVA will add the pentacle to its list of approved emblems of belief, and will provide appropirate headstones to the families who filed the lawsuits.









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The Va was acting against wicca because of anti-wiccan comments made earlier by Bush. It took nearly a decade to get recognition that we have a right to religious freedom. There should be no second class religions in our country.
Jamie