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Ninth Circuit Decides: The Mt. Soledad Cross Will Come Down, "Memorial Would Be Desecrated"
Thomas Moore Law Center ^ | June 22, 2006 | TMLC

Posted on 06/22/2006 1:44:05 PM PDT by RDTF

ANN ARBOR, MI – A three–judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stay Federal District Judge Gordon Thompson’s order to remove the Mt. Soledad Cross pending an appeal. Thus, the City of San Diego must remove the Cross by August 1, 2006, or face fines of $5,000 per day thereafter. In its decision, however, the Ninth Circuit scheduled oral arguments on the matter for the week of October 16, 2006, weeks after the Cross is to be removed. The 43- foot Cross was erected in 1954 and currently is the centerpiece of a national memorial honoring American veterans of all wars. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been fighting to save the Cross since 2004 when it received information that the private memorial association operating the memorial site and the City were about to agree to settle the case, which had been on going for 15 years, by removing the Cross.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: antitheist; blackrobedthugs; christophobia; churchandstate; cross; firstamendment; godless; jesushaters; judicialactivism; judicialtyranny; judiciary; mtsoledad; purge; seculartaliban; waronjesus; wog
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To: Mugwump
Someone really, really, wants that cross removed.

Could it be....

SATAN??!!!

41 posted on 06/22/2006 2:17:23 PM PDT by Argus
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To: MeanWestTexan

I thought ghouls dug up corpses.


42 posted on 06/22/2006 2:18:29 PM PDT by weegee (If fetal tissue is non-viable, then why are they trying to use it to stimulate cell production?)
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To: MeanWestTexan

"They should sell the mountain to a private organization."

They tried that and were stopped by the black robed tyrants of the anti-American left.


43 posted on 06/22/2006 2:20:40 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT
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To: Argus

BINGO!


44 posted on 06/22/2006 2:20:51 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Actions have consequences.")
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To: samadams2000

Good to hear that. I imagine the next step for these irreligist fascists would be to ban religious headstones in government-owned cemeteries: can't offend people with religious symbols, can we? Censor Arlington, censor Normandy, and censor the local cemeteries where your folks are buried. Mustn't make people feel bad.


45 posted on 06/22/2006 2:22:47 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: weegee

All those crosses at Arlington Cemetery...


46 posted on 06/22/2006 2:22:50 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: sgtbono2002

No, that is barbaric. They should be crucified on the cross. ;-)

Of course, I mean effigies of the Ninth court justices. This would be fitting.


47 posted on 06/22/2006 2:22:53 PM PDT by daviscupper
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To: MeanWestTexan

"I am beginning to think liberals are vampires."

Not really they are the offspring of Hitler and Stalin.


48 posted on 06/22/2006 2:24:09 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT
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To: weegee

For the same reason, robbers rob banks --- that's where the bodies are.


49 posted on 06/22/2006 2:24:40 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: el_texicano
Take it to the Supremes.

I believe the Supreme Court already (in 2003) denied review. As far as I know, all legal remedies have been exhausted, other than the Hail-Mary-pass "eminent domain" strategy the Thomas Moore people are suggesting here.

50 posted on 06/22/2006 2:24:43 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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51 posted on 06/22/2006 2:25:13 PM PDT by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: RDTF

double whammy to the favor of the freaks.....denigrating Christianity and our War Dead/Veterans


52 posted on 06/22/2006 2:25:31 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: RDTF

I am glad they ruled this way.....just as long as the cross stays put until it makes it to the US Supreme court


53 posted on 06/22/2006 2:26:04 PM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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54 posted on 06/22/2006 2:26:20 PM PDT by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: SF Republican
Don't forget Los Angeles. We all know angels don't exist...

P.S. Nice to know there's another Freeper in the Bay Area. Cheers!

55 posted on 06/22/2006 2:29:41 PM PDT by cdbull23 ("If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back." - Homer on what's good to drink.)
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To: RDTF
Good afternoon.

The City of San Diego needs to tell the 9th Circus Court that the City is in a state of noncompliance and, in a civil manner, tell the court where they can place their decision.

They need to take this to the people and push it to the limit. Civil disobedience is an American tradition and the City, with the backing of the people, needs to engage in it. I wonder how far the Government is willing to go to enforce this ruling. It's looking more and more like we need to find out.

Michael Frazier
56 posted on 06/22/2006 2:32:01 PM PDT by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: brazzaville

just tell them it is a giant symbol celebrating homosexuality then they will never tear it down...


57 posted on 06/22/2006 2:33:33 PM PDT by edzo4
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To: brazzaville

So the Ninth Circuit discriminated based on Religion?


58 posted on 06/22/2006 2:34:01 PM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: sgtbono2002

Agreed. A huge human wall protecting the cross. That would make a huge statement.


59 posted on 06/22/2006 2:35:54 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: RDTF

Appeal to the Supreme Court.


60 posted on 06/22/2006 2:38:08 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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