Air Force Academy Okays Witches, Warlocks and Pagans

Okay, we thought this was a joke, too, but it came from the Associated Press and was confirmed by other sources.

The United States Air Force Academy is now officially setting aside outdoor worship areas for “pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers,” the academy officials announced Feb. 1.

One of the academy’s chaplains said designating the space is “part of the school’s effort to foster religious tolerance to defend the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.”

They’ve even set up a stone circle for “witches, warlocks, druids,” and other worshipers of unconventional religions. Tech. Sgt. Brandon Longcrier, a pagan (a polytheistic, non-Judeo-Christian religion), worked to convince academy officials to allow the space.

“When I first arrived here, Earth-centered cadets didn’t have anywhere to call home,” he said in a news release. “Now, they meet every Monday night, they get to go on retreats, and they have a stone circle.”

He said the academy’s chaplain was “100%” in favor of the new rule.

Wicca, incidentally, is typically a duotheistic religion, worshipping a Goddess and a God, who are traditionally viewed as the Triple Goddess and Horned God.

What next? Vampires?