yeah, pagans are just sprinting to those recruiting office for the chance to die for insane monotheistic fascists fighting against another group of insane monotheistic fascists.

in no way does this constitute good news for anyone except headstone carvers who get to charge more. pentangles is hard!

Um, Goths are not normally Wiccans, nor are Wiccans normally Goths. Besides, as someone who served as a Druid (Reform), when will other religions get acknowledged?

Patrick Stewart is dead!?! Oh, woe, Captain Picard!!!

Why the hell would a witch join the Armed Forces?

I wonder what the outcome would have been if Jessicas gun didn't jam. Either way she's still a o.k. im my book as a bad ass for even just being there.

max, it is good news for Wiccans who die in combat and get buried in a military cemetery. However criminal this administrations war in the middle East is, I won't shit on someone who joins the service because they wish to serve their country, or do it out of financial need.

The Pentagon is officially allowing pentacles.

Ah, bigotry. Goths does not equal Wicca. But how nice for you to stereotype.

Why would a Wicca practitioner join the military? Same reason anyone joins.

3 hots and a cot.
Patriotism.
Money for college.
Adventure.
Get the heck out of Oklahoma.

Okay the last one was mine.

Not the service member was a sergeant which means he's been in for a few years and not some hapless kid.

For the record: I know goth does not equal wicca. But every time I walk by my neighborhood witchy bookstore (twice a day), I see goths—goths behind the counter, goths browsing the books, goths getting their tarot read. Goths, goths, goths. I realize not all goths are wiccans. But it seems like a disproportionate number of wiccans are goths.

AND if you do a google search for "wicca" and other fashion/music genres (punk, hiphop, and, god forbid, country-western), you will find a lot more hits for wicca-goth than wicca-anything else.

Which is all to say: I get it, I get it—but really.

#8 rolling on the floor laughing

ditto, Catman. That's pretty damned funny.

Which is all to say: I get it, I get it—but really.

It was a cute headline, I'll allow.

And too .. there are a lot of wanna-bes and plain odd people who profess a belief in Wicca. But I look around at the Pagans and Wicca and 'etc' that I know and most of them look like everyone else.

Still .. offensive is offensive. If you wouldn't tag a Hispanic or African-American with an offensive stereotype, why Wiccans?

Oh wait - this is The Stranger. Of course you would (smile).

Goth and Wicca might not be the same thing, but they are both seriously lame. Call that a stereotype if you want. Both are subcultures regardless of the fact that wicca insists it's a religion. And I'm saying that as someone who dislikes religion in general.

Call that a stereotype if you want.

I'd say it's an observation. I'll assume that your only contact with Wicca is of the 'hippy dippy' variety.

Like Christianity there are high and low forms of practice and adherents who range from conservative to way far left flakes.