Etymology of Wicca published; the earliest was Paul Huson's "Mastering Witchcraft" (1970), which made no reference to "Wicca". This was followed by Raymond Buckland's "The Tree: The Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft", in which he propagated his newly developed tradition of Seax-Wica; utilising "Wica" as the name of the tradition, he also referenced "the Wicca" as the name of the religion as a whole. Contrastingly, during the 1970s the term "Wicca" was rejected by feminist Pagan Witchcraft groups in the United States, in particular the Dianic tradition; the term does not appear in the early works of Zsuzsanna Budapest and Starhawk, although the
Wicca the churches, which they regard as a lot of man-made dogma". The religious studies scholar Graham Harvey noted that "the popular and prevalent media image [of Wicca] is mostly inaccurate". In the United States, a number of legal decisions have improved and validated the status of Wiccans, especially "Dettmer v. Landon" in 1986. However, Wiccans have encountered opposition from some politicians and Christian organisations, including former president of the United States George W. Bush, who stated that he did not believe Wicca to be a religion. In 2007 the United States Department of Veterans Affairs after years of dispute added