WASHINGTON - A 40-foot-tall cross-shaped war memorial standing on public land in Maryland does not represent an impermissible government endorsement of religion, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a major decision testing the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution’s separation of church and state.
The justices, in a 7-2 decision, overturned a lower court ruling that had declared the so-called Peace Cross in Bladensburg unconstitutional in a legal challenge mounted by the American Humanist Association, a group that advocates for secular governance. The concrete cross was erected in 1925 as a memorial to troops killed in World War One.
Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative, wrote for the majority that although the cross is a religious symbol, “its use in the Bladensburg memorial has special significance” because it functions as a war memorial.
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wow, just....wow
If you read Ginsberg's dissent only 1% of WWI statues are crosses. If this were a big crescent shaped statue you know it would never have gone up. The majority jumps through hoops to pretend crosses were common public speech rather than recognizing individual private speech.
So I guess only Christians died fighting the Kaiser, right?
Time to erect a Flying Spaghetti Monster...
a cross is not solely unique to christianity ...as long as there is no 'jesus' hanging on it it can be a relatively neutral symbol
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