Visitors walk around the 40-foot Peace Cross on Feb. 13 in Bladensburg, Md.
What interests me most about cases such as this one is the effort on the part of conservatives to claim that plainly religious symbols are in fact not religious at all. This played out most vividly in a similar case in 2009, when Justice Antonin Scalia tried to assert that a cross is simply “the most common symbol of the resting place of the dead” and has nothing in particular to do with Christianity.
Fortunately, most of the conservative justices on the court seem unwilling to go that far. But they are surely looking for new precedents they can establish to chip away at church/state separation and say that religious expressions such as this one are fine, just as they ruled in the Hobby Lobby case that corporations can decide which laws they want to disobey if they find a religious justification for their action.
In many parts of American life, that’s no longer true. We’ve now moved toward a more inclusive set of cultural norms that acknowledges that though most Americans are Christian, many other Americans follow other religions or no religion, and they deserve respect and acknowledgement, too. Many stores do indeed wish their patrons “Happy Holidays” in order to be inclusive. Schools in many areas are closed not only on Christmas and Easter, but also on Yom Kippur and maybe even Eid al-Fitr.
You mean Conservative Christian EXTREMISTS!! They are not true Christians. It’s all about $$ and control. Their actions speak louder than words. Fake Christians.
Yes and they will.
WhitfordBradley You meant “to not stall their unconstitutional encroachment of Christian doctrine into public domain”
This is the most dangerous thing to happen in my adult life. Something must be done.
Their cultural losses are necessary if we as a society can get beyond their superstitious agenda that is holding us all back.
The first cross was a simple marker ..... there is no patent or copyright on something formed in a cross ... no exclusive meaning
WhitfordBradley Because they took something that ordered you to love your neighbor & not cast the first stone & turned into something that oppresses their neighbor & hurls an avalanche of boulders at everyone but themselves. THEY are to blame for their own demise...
conservative christians are stuck in the 1950's
The court certainly should! This country was founded on judeo Christian beliefs and shoild not cater to atheists, agnostics, leftist fools or any politically correct jerks!
This why they back a man who is the antithesis of everything that they supposedly stand for.
Keep your religion to yourselves, and OUT of the government.
Lol guaranteed WP won't allow you to view without paying for the article... The cross btw, was put up for in remembrance of soldiers who fought for and or died in WW1... Get over yourselves.
Well at least you admit it is a culture war now. Conservatives.have been saying that for decades. Multiculturalism and diversity is code for ending conservative judeo Christian culture.
Christians have to start standing up for themselves. Turning the other cheek doesn't seem to be working.
Conservative Christians need to respect the opinions and choices of others as they expect their opinions and choices to be respected.
They are holding their nose with Chump, as they want an alt-right judiciary. We could be slaves to these fanatics for 40 years.
Glad to see Washington Post taking a break from pushing fake news and attacking Trump and Republicans to attack Christians for a while. It's good to cycle through your BS, Washington Post.
When a Christian is forced to pay for birth control, that's a violation of their rights. When society is forced to pay for Christian themed memorials, we're being insensitive for having a problem with that? It's a cross. That's a religious symbol. Case closed.
Accurate
They dont really know what they support. ...until their pregnant daughter dies in childbirth or their deformed baby suffers with no hospice. Republicans have zero foresight into the future... they cant imagine it happening to them, until it does.
Should have stolen Obama's time masheen
Why don't they just count on the God?
Why is the media so anti Christian?
cool pay wall bruh
They have such an entitlement mentality
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