Appeals Court Says Cross On Federal Land Is Unconstitutional

 

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the argument that the cross is solely a memorial.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a cross displayed on public property for nearly a century is unconstitutional.

Three versions of the Christian symbol have been erected atop 822-foot Mount Soledad in the posh La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, since 1913.

The current 43-foot cross was erected in 1954 in honor of Korean War veterans and has been the subject of near constant judicial back and forth since 1989, when two Vietnam War veterans filed suit against the city, saying it violated the California Constitution's "No Preference" clause.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the notion that the cross -- since the late 1990s surrounded by plaques and paving stones honoring veterans and war dead -- was solely a memorial.

"The use of such a distinctively Christian symbol to honor all veterans sends a strong message of endorsement and exclusion," the court said in its ruling. "It suggests that the government is so connected to a particular religion that it treats that religion's symbolism as its own, as universal. To many non-Christian veterans, this claim of universality is alienating."

The court also noted that the site had, for most of history, been used for Easter services -- marked on maps until the late 1980s as the "Mount Soledad Easter Cross" -- and was designated a war memorial with a plaque "only after the legal controversy began in the late 1980s."

"It was not until the late 1990s that veterans' organizations began holding regular memorial services at the site," the court said.

And the court rejected arguments that the cross at a war memorial was no different than any other memorial that includes a cross.

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[Just who are these “judges” that are judging that Crosses are Unconstitutional? Have they even read the Constitution recently? Is there anything in that precious document that comes remotely close to implying that crosses on federal land are unconstitutional? 

Last time I checked the National Cemetery at Arlington was on federal land. What about those crosses? Or crosses on churches on US military bases? Or wearing crosses while on federal land? How long is it going to be before these same “judges” judge that those crosses must go? Sound a little Marxist to you? Me too!!

Wake up America!! These perfidious “judges” are trying to judge us into liberal socialism. Until we unite against this type of transgression, America will continue to suffer.]