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The Mount Soledad cross won’t be coming down anytime soon, says Mt. Soledad Memorial Association
Press Information | Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial
There are many plaques there, honoring vets from the Revolutionary war, to the present conflicts in the ME. This guy Steve Trunk, (whom is furthering the case) is not unlike many other atheists I have had the pleasure, or should I say displeasure to meet in person throughout my life, according to what I read of his statements, and pronouncements. He seems to think it is all about him. As he states on the FFRF website, "The presence of the cross makes me feel as if I’m a second-class citizen." Awwwww, poor wittle baby...Does it hurt your wittle feewings? What a putz!
There is a letter about what this attack by groups like FFRF, and the "humanists" are up to in this country, and is it any surprise that the 9th Circuit is firmly on their side, as a long seen wildly leftist leaning court. The letter says better what I can not myself, it reads in part:
"The effort to scrub the public square of religious expression and symbols is a threat to religious freedom, runs contrary to our founding documents, and is unfaithful to our history as a free people. It also represents an incorrect application of the Establishment Clause, found in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
That 2011 opinion also demonstrated that the 2005 Supreme Court decision of Van Orden v. Perry, a "ten commandments" case, has made the illogic of Establishment Clause Jurisprudence even more pronounced in the United States.
Even the convoluted trail left by the Lemon case and its progeny can now be abandoned by a Court, under the ruse of an "exception" to the Lemon analysis, only to be replaced by Judicial whimsy. In other words, unelected Federal Judges now determine whether we can express ourselves as a people who have a religious heritage.
Federal Judges now make up their own rules by which they decide, on their own, whether a religious symbol, especially a Christian religious symbol, will be allowed to stand on public land or in a public building. There is not even a pretense that the actual words of the Establishment Clause have any effect in this new world of the judicial oligarchy.
That 224 page opinion rendered by the 9th Circuit in the Mt Soledad case back in 2011 is one of many examples of why it is absolutely essential that we reclaim the "Separation of Powers" doctrine and rein in Federal Judges and Courts. The recent decision of the lower Federal Court only makes it all more urgent. Are we going to begin tearing down other symbols of our history because they have religious symbols within them?
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights is best understood as an anti-establishment clause. It was intended to prohibit the "establishment" of one particular religion - in the sense of a Federal or State sponsored Church which mandated adherence from unwilling citizens. The American founders fled coercive approaches to religion which compelled adherence to a particular sect. Yet, they were not anti-religious.
They were MOST assuredly NOT against religious symbols or religious expression. Our history is filled with them. Or, more accurately, it once was. Religious symbols are no longer seen as a wonderful sign of the history of the West and the American founding by the new Judicial Oligarchs.
Rather they are seen as a threat to the increasingly hostile secularist order. When they are allowed they must be demonstrated to have been eviscerated of any religious meaning and somehow thereby rendered "secular" and acceptable.
This 9th Circuit Court opinion showed hostility toward the Cross: [C]onsidering the entire context of the Memorial, the Memorial today remains a predominantly religious symbol. The history and absolute dominance of the Cross are not mitigated by the belated efforts to add less significant secular elements to the Memorial.
The fact that the Memorial also commemorates the war dead and serves as a site for secular ceremonies honoring veterans cannot overcome the effect of its decades-long religious history...The Memorial's relatively short history of secular usage does not predominate over its religious functions so as to eliminate the message of endorsement that the Cross conveys."
Those Judges were particularly offended by the size of the cross noting (W)e cannot overlook the fact that the Cross is forty-three feet tall. It physically dominates the Memorial, towering over the secular symbols placed beneath it, and is so large and placed in such a prominent location that it can be seen from miles away.
Their disjointed legal opinion finally concluded, [A]fter examining the entirety of the Mount Soledad Memorial in context-having considered its history, its religious and non-religious uses, its sectarian and secular features, the history of war memorials and the dominance of the Cross-we conclude that the Memorial, presently configured and as a whole, primarily conveys a message of government endorsement of religion that violates the Establishment Clause.
Now, Judge Burns has followed the directives of other Judicial Oligarchs and ordered that a beloved part of our history, a Cross which has long honored the war dead, be torn down. Charles LiMandri, a courageous Catholic Lawyer who represents the Mount Soledad Memorial Association, said he was going to Appeal."
Religious Cleansing in the USA: Federal Judge Orders Mt. Soledad War Memorial Cross Be Torn Down - U.s. - Catholic Online
Remember friends, scrubbing the public square of any religious references is among the first things done by Communists in communities, largely because of the threat religion poses to a totalitarian state. Just sayin'