, a Washington, D.C. suburb. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether it stays, raising a question that has vexed the justices for decades: What is the proper place for religion in American public life?
In 2012, the American Humanist Association filed a lawsuit, claiming that its presence on public land violates the Constitution, amounting to a government establishment of religion. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia agreed, saying it could not ignore that"for thousands of years the Latin cross has represented Christianity."
"The Latin cross is not embraced by non-Christians or used by them as a symbol of death or sacrifice," she says. When the government prominently displays the cross as a war memorial,"it does more than just align the state with Christianity. It also callously discriminates against patriotic soldiers who are not Christian."
The American Legion also urges the court to abandon a test it has used for decades to determine whether government displays or expressions involving religious symbols would be seen by a reasonable person as a government endorsement of a particular religious faith.
The cross isn’t religious life. It’s the Truth of a personal relationship with the Lord who shed his blood and life to save us as sinners. It once was America’s heritage. The Bible and prayer was part of the sessions in congress. Then the liberals crept in.
In church !
Today. . . it needs to pay taxes to play in politics.
Your religion should be like your sex life: private.
it is not an 'endorsement'...... it is an 'acknowledgment'. over 70% of American pop identify as christian.
The proper place is places of worship or Cemetery. That’s pretty much it.
It should be private and up to each individual. Why does it have to be in the public? It becomes public when it becomes a business.
Pew Research Center has an excellent piece on religious courts now operating in America. 'Applying God’s Law: Religious Courts and Mediation in the U.S.'
The right place for it is anywhere but Inside-Government!
Next, 'In God We Trust, ' then Bibles for swearing in offices, then ban all churches... until we are made to worship government, global warming scientists only, and MSM.
No place is the right place for religion.
Keep your religion to yourself. It has no place in government.
I’ll make it simple. IF YOU CAN NOT SHOW EVIDENCE THAT ITS TRUE YOU CANT MAKE LAWS SUPPORTED BY IT. Thank you. We wouldn’t pass a healthcare bill based on what Harry Potter would have wanted. End of story.
ragstorm A Supreme Court that doesn't understand that the USA was founded on religious freedom & that there is **NO** 'separation of church & state' in the Constitution does NOT deserve to sit on the bench & needs disbarred immediately.
CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Separate.
Leave it alone, it was decided by others to have it. Drive by knuckle heads trying to decide for others don’t get a voice when they are not part!!! Stop the dumbass nonsense!
NO PLACE!
Think for a second what is more of a danger to humanity gangster rap that exploits and degrades woman or a cross that symbolizes peace love and hope. The cross has nothing to do with the guilty of how we live but thug music influences the young in a negative way
American civilian childless population vs American military population. Decrease and you increase? Game
Religion should be a big part of American public life. Religion doesn't profess a particular political party but a way of life. Prayer is a way to ask for guidance and forgiveness. It doesn't put one person above another. Religion teaches us right from wrong.
I say keep the cross and everyone should be tolerant of other religions.
The proper place for the Christian and Jewish religion is everywhere in public life. We are all of God and God is in all of us.
I’ve no problem with secular memorials, but otherwise it does not belong in politics or publicly (taxpayer) funded institutions. Only in your homes, churches, synagogues, temples and mosques.
Separation between Church and State as it has been.
Discuss the movie is rather strange as if it has an earth which should know where and not grow in term of the confidence voiced of it seems accompaciment to the relationship who believes
The only people who have a right to decide the memorial are the families whose loved ones are being remembered.
Religion has shown itself to be full of corruption, full of lies and full of duplicity. Religion has no place in our world.
That is a WWI memorial. Anyone that wants to destroy those memorials has a true hatred for those who served.
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