Posted on 03/29/2005 9:24:29 AM PST by NormsRevenge
About 40,000 signatures have been collected to try to force the San Diego City Council to keep the Mount Soledad cross at the site of a war memorial in La Jolla, supporters of a petition drive said yesterday.
They need to submit a minimum of 33,610 signatures from registered voters by April 7 to get the council to reconsider its March 8 decision to move the cross to comply with a federal court ruling. The council's other option is to hold a special election on the issue within 88 days.
The City Clerk's Office estimated a special election would cost $2 million.
More than 500 volunteers fanned out throughout the region on Easter weekend, to neighborhoods and venues such as Qualcomm Stadium and SeaWorld, to collect signatures.
Organizers plan to continue gathering signatures and have received permission to circulate petitions at a San Diego Padres exhibition game tomorrow at Petco Park.
In 1991, a federal judge declared that allowing the cross on public land as part of the war memorial violated the constitutional separation of church and state.
Grassroots action at its finest!
In other news..."A right-wing legal foundation has filed suit to remove all trees from public parks as they are a violation of the tenant of "Separation of Church and State" in the US Constitution. The legal foundation stated that the trees in the public parks effectively constitute a State sanctioned religion of Wicca or Druidry and should be removed from every State and Federal Park..."
"In 1991, a federal judge declared that allowing the cross on public land as part of the war memorial violated the constitutional separation of church and state."
If the judge really believed this then he would know that just ruling on a 'religious symbol' is a violation of 'separation of church and state'.
They just don't seem to see their own hypocracy!
Or just ignore it.
When I was a child, my state was still Golden, and still had its very identifiable Mission / Gold Rush / cowboy heritage. Now, all that has been corroded and marginalized, as my state has been taken over by people who never valued any of those things. Those who have taken it over, might well have been following in the footsteps of an expeditionary group, who had taken Saul Alinski's call to "take over a state" to heart. Make no mistake, the destruction of California's traditions, and its change from a state with a good urban - rural balance and general cultural conservatism, to one that increasingly is becoming an attempted utopia for counter cultural and anti traditional elements from all corners of the nation, even the world, appears to be part of a well thought out, highly orchestrated plan. Gramsci would be proud. What a sad thing it is ....
The name "San Diego" obviously has to go - I suggest "Vichy" in it's place.
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