Bush still stickin it to the Wiccans?

Only months after winning a legal battle with the Department of Veterans Affairs that gave her the right to request a Wiccan symbol on her husband’s grave, a Nevada woman is again accusing the administration of snubbing her because of her faith.

Last week, President Bush met in northern Nevada with family members of soldiers who have perished in combat, including relatives of Patrick Stewart, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005.

But his wife, Roberta Stewart, was not invited. She thinks the snub stems from her suit against the VA, which eventually agreed to add the pentacle to the list of religious symbols permitted on the gravestones of deceased veterans. “I’m upset that I wasn’t invited,” Stewart said. “I think it is because of my faith. I feel like I’ve been discriminated against again.”

The Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State added, “She stood courageously for religious freedom for all soldiers, and the president was wrong to treat her so shabbily.”