American Legion Joins The Call For President Bush To Save Mt. Soledad Cross
Posted on May 16, 2006
Via WND
The commander of the American Legion has joined those calling for President Bush to take action to save the Mount Soledad cross veterans memorial in Southern California, which a federal judge has ordered removed.
In a letter to the president, National Commander Thomas L. Bock wrote, “We are particularly concerned in this case that a dangerous precedent could be set that would endanger veterans memorials across America, perhaps even the 9,000 crosses that mark the final resting places of our World War II heroes at Normandy Beach.”
As we reported earlier, U.S. District Judge Gordon Thompson ordered the city of San Diego to remove a mountain-top cross within 90 days or face a fine of $5,000 a day. Of course the ruling was based off of the old myth of “seperation of church and state”. The ACLU were behind the lawsuit in their usual manner, trying to erase all traces of our Christain heritage. They continue to be America’s number one religious censor.
Last year, 76 percent of San Diegans voted to approve the transfer of the national memorial to federal custody, but democracy doesn’t matter to the ACLU and activist judges. Instead, the chance that one sensitive athiest might be offended over shadows any meaning the war memorial has to those it is honoring. The rule of judicial fiat rules over the will of the people any day in the ACLU’s book.
“The crosses and Stars of David that mark the graves and honor the sacrifices of our fallen heroes are sacred ground to Americans,” wrote Bock, who represents 2.7 million veterans . “As a grateful nation, we must ensure that their memory will never be dishonored by those who would seek to remove them.”
The American Legion is conducting a campaign in support of the Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA), H.R. 2679, which is pending in the House of Representatives. The measure would remove the authority for judges to award taxpayer monies in attorneys fees in Establishment Clause cases involving litigation against religions icons and veterans memorials.
The American Family Association is asking citizens to send an e-mail to the president to effectively take “the case out of Judge Thompson’s hands” by signing an executive order transferring the land to the National Park Service.
The ACLJ have set up a petition to save the cross. Add your name.
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This case is a ridiculous reminder of how far the ACLU will go to eradicate any trace acknowledgement of religious reverence in the public square — nothing is sacred, not even the memory of our nation’s fallen heroes.
Remember the ACLU also has its mitts all over the case in Utah to remove the Utah Highway Patrolmen’s memorial crosses (former head of the SLC ACLU office is a plaintiff), all the cases to remove crosses from city seals and even current cases that prevent individuals from thanking their God in graduation speeches, among many others.
People that defend this abominable organization need a check up from the neck up.
“Of course the ruling was based off of the old myth of ’seperation of church and state’.”
Funny how numerous incarnations of the U.S. Supreme Court and a godly number of conservative judges recognize that this seperation [sic] is anything but a myth. But go ahead and invent stuff on the fly if it helps you work up a nice infantile tantrum.
“The ACLU were behind the lawsuit in their usual manner, trying to erase all traces of our Christain heritage. They continue to America’s number one religious censor.”
Do you proofread at all? You’ve used this particular inaccurate homily so many times to date that it’s one passage I’d figure you could type correctly.
You seem genuinely unaware that when you use the word “our” as you did above, you’re not speaking for all of America. There is no special political place in America’s history for Christianity. The founders of this country had a very strong sense of what religious oppression *by Christians* had done in Europe and they didn’t want to see a re-enactment in a fledgling America.
I do enjoy the fact that you can spout this sort of maniacally paranoid crap and then immediately post about the conspiracy theories and tinfoil hats of left-wingers. Just another reminder that hypocrisy is an indispensable element of true-blue pseudoconservativism.
I, too, would like an explanation of how separation of church and state is a myth. Do you mean it’s a myth in that the words “separation of church and state” don’t appear in the Constitution, even though the principle has a strong foundation in the First Amendment? That’s the only explanation I can come up with.
“…a godly number of conservative judges”
This was a typo and an especially unfortunate one as it introduces unwanted connotations. I meant “goodly.”
Freudian slip! Your fingers are Republicans!