The legality of the 93-year-old memorial was challenged by an atheist organization called the American Humanist Association, which argued that the cross sent an exclusionary message in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
“[T]he sectarian elements easily overwhelm the secular ones,” Barack Obama-appointed Judge Stephanie Thacker wrote in the majority opinion.
Thacker also said that the American Legion’s “affiliation with Christianity” should not be ignored.
Once again we are subjected to the terminally cancerous disease called Obama. Purposely appointing lower court judges across this country to infect every foundation of American society, may his being rot and stink before our very eyes as well as his criminal minions who do his biding
I have a feeling SCOTUS will rule the correct and proper way on this and the cross monument, along with every other one will stay intact.
A simple monument is in no way an exclusionary message.
This Republic now has to kowtow to whatever the minority du jour of the day wants whether it be gays, atheists, transgenders, transracials, transhumans or whoever else comes along.
Acknowledgement of religion is not
Establishment of religion.
Marko
This is insane. Should they get rid of all the headstones in Arlington because they have crosses and stars of David on them as well?
Where in Maryland in THE CONGRESS establishing a religion?
Acknowledging the dominant faith of the dead memorialized is somehow wrong now?
Just. Wow
I have hopes that the court will rule 5-4 or 6-3 in favor of keeping the cross in place.
I have never understood how this language can be construed to prevent states from endorsing religion. In fact, the tenth amendment suggests just the opposite.
This REALLY ticks me off...see, and hear, this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omd9_FJnerY
What do you see but crosses on foreign fields where our servicemen have fallen. Thousands of them. All buried under the cross of Christianity (with a few Judaism stars scattered here and there among the Christian crosses).
What are these atheist communistocrats going to next, go to Europe and Asia and remove all those Christian crosses? that these brave men chose to be buried under?
Wouldn’t that be something, the very thing these heroes fought against, socialism (godless Nazism, Communism), desiring to remove the Christian cross above them?
My dad, by the way, was a lifer in the Army, fighting in WW2 and the Korean war, against forms of godless socialism.
The cross was erected by the American Legion on private land. The state took possession many years later, I presume in connection with road widening projects. I presume that the state agreed to maintain the monument when it took the land. If the state wants to renege, fine, but it should give the land back, remove any roads impinging on the property and restore the status quo ante. Or pay full cost for a mutually agreeable relocation.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
This is the kind of case that is why the Dems were going crazy to stop Kavanaugh.
The rediculous activist court rulings than freedom of religion and no state sponsored religion, was twisted into freedom from religion in the public square will be undone.