The Enemy of My Enemy . . .
There is that old saying: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
With that in mind, I offer a hearty congratulations to Wiccans and Neo-Pagans who today won the right to have their pentagram placed on U.S. military gravestone markers. After nearly a month of legal bickering, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs finally allowed the pentagram to be used on the grave markers of soldiers who confessed to be neo-pagans or wiccans.
Religious faith has been increasingly marginalized and repressed in the public square of American discourse. Please do not give in to certain columnists and commentators who like to suggest otherwise. Under the banner of “offensive”, free speech (religious and otherwise) is becoming a rarer and more precious commodity. Sometimes, in my more disillusioned moments, I suspect that I might live to see a push to prevent churches from celebrating Easter on the premise that the raising of Jesus from the dead is offensive to supporters of capital punishment, Italians, pagans, Jews, governors, and members of the Israeli Sanhedrin (all of whose decision was over turned that day).
This victory by Wiccans is a victory for all people of faith, allowing us to keep our religious integrity, to worship the divine as we each see fit, and to express that faith openly to anyone who might come across our tombstone.
A good day for all of us…
See AP Story here.
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