{"id":1253,"date":"2006-03-03T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T14:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2006\/03\/03\/live-a-wiccan-die-nothing\/"},"modified":"2006-03-03T10:59:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T14:59:32","slug":"live-a-wiccan-die-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2006\/03\/03\/live-a-wiccan-die-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Live a Wiccan, Die nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1229'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, our government does not &#8220;recognize&#8221; Wiccan paganism as a religion.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/lvrj_home\/2006\/Mar-02-Thu-2006\/news\/6149634.html\">And thus, Nevada National Guard Sgt. Patrick Stewart may not have the symbol of his beliefs placed on his marker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought the literal text of the Constitution read, &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, that doesn&#8217;t matter to the executive branch.  Small wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, our government does not &#8220;recognize&#8221; Wiccan paganism as a religion. And thus, Nevada National Guard Sgt. Patrick Stewart may not have the symbol of his beliefs placed on his marker. I thought the literal text of the Constitution read, &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-kd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}