Neo-Pagans Get Worship Circle at Air Force Academy

[SMACKDAB]

Stonehenge on the Rockies? This stone circle will soon be dedicated as the U.S. Air Force Academy's first official neo-pagan place of worship.

Stonehenge on the Rockies? This stone circle will soon be dedicated as the U.S. Air Force Academy's first official neo-pagan place of worship.

Witches, Druids and pagans rejoice! The Air Force Academy in Colorado is about to recognize its first Wiccan prayer circle, a Stonehenge on the Rockies that will serve as an outdoor place of worship for the academy's neo-pagans.

Wiccan cadets and officers on the Colorado Springs base have been convening for over a decade, but the school will officially dedicate a newly built circle of stones on about March 10, putting the outdoor sanctuary on an equal footing with the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Buddhist chapels on the base.

"When I first arrived here, Earth-centered cadets didn't have anywhere to call home," said Sgt. Robert Longcrier, the lay leader of the neo-pagan groups on base.

"Now, they meet every Monday night, they get to go on retreats, and they have a stone circle."

Academy officials had no tally of the number of Wiccan cadets at the school of 4,500, but said they had been angling to set up a proper space since the academic year began.

Seeing as how the term "wiccan" was thrown around on the board the other day, I thought this might be of some interest to some.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584500,00.html?test=latestnews

[Panthro]

Good...everyone should have a right to practice their religion as long as those practices are all lawful.

[cookinwithgas]

This is just a response to the somewhat accurate allegations that that nutball Jesus church across the street from the AF Academy was in cahoots with the Administration there to promote said nutball Jesus church.

[pstall]

God bless em