What Will the Feds Allow *You* to Put on Your Headstone

Elspode · 10-08-2006, 11:56 AM

Dubya said some time back that Wicca isn't a religion. The Pentagon has been stonewalling the addition of the Pentacle as an approved religious symbol for engraving on the headstones of veterans in National Cemeteries. So what think you? Should the government get to decide what expression of religious affiliation should and should not go on the headstone of someone who may have given all they had to give for their country?

The ACLU thinks not. There is a growing tide to get this typically narrowminded restriction changed, but we aren't there yet.

What do ya'll say? Approved religions only? Or freedom of religious expression, even in death? Does it hurt anyone if there's a pent on a headstone?

10-08-2006, 11:56 AM	#1
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	*What Will the Feds Allow You* to Put on Your Headstone** Dubya said some time back that Wicca isn't a religion. The Pentagon has been stonewalling the addition of the Pentacle as an approved religious symbol for engraving on the headstones of veterans in National Cemeteries. So what think you? Should the government get to decide what expression of religious affiliation should and should not go on the headstone of someone who may have given all they had to give for their country? The ACLU thinks not. There is a growing tide to get this typically narrowminded restriction changed, but we aren't there yet. What do ya'll say? Approved religions only? Or freedom of religious expression, even in death? Does it hurt anyone if there's a pent on a headstone? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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