Posted on 08/04/2012 10:08:02 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
WOONSOCKET — "We're in this to the end." That was the battle cry and official response from Mayor Leo T. Fontaine and City Solicitor Joseph S. Larisa Jr. to the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, which has demanded the city remove the WWI and WWII memorial cross at Place Jolicoeur.
"This monument is dedicated to heroes and this is as close to a gravestone as this family will have on U.S. soil. We will defend this monument no matter what," Fontaine told more than 100 cheering veterans and supporters who gathered for a late afternoon press conference Friday at the Woonsocket Museum of Work and Culture.
The monument, which includes a cross, honors four soldiers who were killed in World Wars I and II —William Jolicoeur and Louis, Alexander and Henry Gagne.
The memorial came under attack earlier this year by the FFRF because it includes a cross, which the organization claims is unconstitutional.
The FFRF filed its initial complaint with the city in May at the behest of an unnamed "resident" whom they claimed was offended as they passed by the monument. The city received a second letter from the group in June demanding an official response.
That response came at Friday's press conference. "The city will continue to defend and protect their monument to honor all veterans and as a memorial to our native sons who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country," Fontaine said in an official response letter dated Friday and sent to FFRF's attorney Rebecca S. Markert.
Unless they sell the monument and make it private property, the commies will continue to sue and sue until the city says "this is the end" and tears the cross down.
That is how things work in new America.
Unfortunately, some commie judge will rule the parcel of land cannot be sold.
The memorial came under attack earlier this year by the FFRF because it includes a cross, which the organization claims is unconstitutional.
Oh bullshit! These asswads would not know the Constitution if it jumped up and slapped them.
NOWHERE, EVER has the U S Constitution stated that a cross used anywhere in America at anytime is un Constitutional. STFU and go away...........
The FFRF filed its initial complaint with the city in May at the behest of an unnamed “resident” whom they claimed was offended as they passed by the monument.
So some moron claims they were offended.
I am offended that you live in Woonsocket. Pack and move!
Once the atheists succeed in removing crosses at Woonsocket and other war memorials throughout the country, their next target will be national cemetaries, like Arlington, where crosses adorn the graves of many of our fallen heroes.
How would you like that job?
First you have to get through the hundreds of thousand of veterans and family members that would surround the cemetery. If you managed to do that, then you would have to get through the regiments of military surrounding the next defensive line. Would not like your chance at all......
Such a ruling in this Country would be the first shot of the 2nd American Revolution...............
Rhode Island... I had to go to the link to find out.
Good Luck to them. No more crosses coming down
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