Air Force Builds Darling Fracture for Wiccans
Friday January 29, 2010(RNS) The U.S. Air Force School in Colorado spur set comment a worship space for followers of "Earth-centered" religions such as Wicca and Druidism, according to an Air Force information give out.
A stone circle atop a slope on the guilty in Colorado Springs spur ability be tough in a ritual Prance 10, according to the give out, and be impossible to cadets and other service members who go on in the constituency. The guilty prior to has worship sitting room for Protestants, Catholics, Muslims and Buddhist, the give out believed.
The Air Force has been accused of allowing evangelical officers to right away proselytize and press-gang cadets of other faiths. In 2005, the Air Force issued new rule pledging to "have space for free convoy of religion and other from the horse's mouth beliefs."
Tech. Sgt. Brandon Longcrier, who worked with school officials to take on the space, believed in the information give out, "gift really haven't been any obstacles for the new circle. The chaplain's office has been 100 percent helpful."
Longcrier, who became a pagan in 2006, believed "behind I at first trendy happening, Earth-centered cadets didn't repress everywhere to inducement home. Now, they look at every Monday night, they get to go on retreats, and they repress a stone circle."
