Supporters Vow To Keep Cross In California Veterans Tribute Despite Court Ruling -- FOX News
For decades, there has been a First Amendment battle raging over the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in La Jolla, Calif., where a large cross anchors a tribute to Korean War veterans.
Because it sits on public property, the American Civil Liberties Union has long argued that the cross amounts to an unconstitutional entanglement of government and religion.
In 2011, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, triggering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but in June, the high court justices declined to hear the case.
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My Comment: Another example of the ACLU continuing it's efforts to wipe out any Christian references on memorials that are on government property .... but I think they have overstepped on this one.
Update: A regular reader has emailed me with the question ..... since the gravestones at Arlington cemetery and other military cemeteries have crosses, Star of David, etc. symbols ..... and these cemeteries are on government land .... can the ACLU argue that this is an unconstitutional entanglement of government and religion?
According to their argument .... and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals .... the answer apparently is yes.
3 comments:
Oh Lord! can't you understand the difference between religious markings at a cemetery and a monument?
I was in Korean war and believe me many who died or got wounded were not Christians...if a soldier who is Christian is buried in national cemetery than he gets his religious markings, for which see the places in France from WWI.
Thank you Fred for your comment. Of course I know the difference between a monument and religious markings on a tombstone, but I also do not underestimate how dedicated the ACLU is in expunging anything that resembles religious references on government property. If I was a betting man .... I would not be surprised if they will ask if these type of tombstones be changed into something that is not "controversial". http://ionenewsone.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/arlington.jpg
Some of the readers of the above article may want to parues the contents of a book written in 1864 by one Binjamin Franklin Morris titled "The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States"
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