The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 40-foot World War I memorial cross can stay on public land at a Maryland intersection.
The cross “has become a prominent community landmark, and its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of a hostility toward religion that has no place in our Establishment Clause traditions,” the court wrote.
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that “contrary to respondents’ intimations, there is no evidence of discriminatory intent in the selection of the design of the memorial or the decision of a Maryland commission to maintain it. The Religion Clause of the Constitution aims to foster a society in which people of all beliefs can live together harmoniously, and the presence of the Bladensburg Cross on the land where it has stood for so many years is fully consistent with that aim.”
RBG is turning over in her grave.
A light in a dark time
Just wait awhile, some rabid lefty group will sneak over there at night and find a way to pull it down.
They never stop. They are mentally disturbed obsessives. They have nothing else in their life, but hate and envy.
I hope I live long enough to see these people reap what they sow.
I would most certainly agree with RBG that the Cross is a symbol which is associated with Christianity. There is no other symbol more universally recognized; unless you take into consideration the pinnacle of the Christian faith being that of the empty tomb where Jesus was laid and left three days later in His miraculous resurrection, (that would be a bit harder to make a symbol of), for the resurrection is the Hope which people lay down their lives for their friends as well.
From death springs life. That symbol should be treated with reverence and a constant reminder of what the real cost of love was and continues to cost humanity every day.
For the whiners who want to defund and remove all crosses, the reality of that Cross is there as a sobering reality of what evil is capable of doing.
Stare long, hard and with gratitude for that wretched symbol!
The beauty of the Cross is that it symbolizes sacrifice and love for even those who fight against it.
It is for All People.
Yes.
been there a century and ginsberg wants to knock it down using gobbldygook.
the FACT it is there is the REASON ginsberg can engage in gobbldygook.
they never make the connexion, do they?
Not sure how RBG is turning over in her grave as she wrote the dissenting opinion (although she may be among the living dead from what I’ve seen).
Re: “The American Humanist Association claims that its members come into regular, unwelcome contact with the Bladensburg Cross when they drive through the area,”
What a vile group of snowflakes they must be.
In my early twenties I came to believe that repeated low dose exposure was the best cure for hypersensitively and that my purpose in life was to help the perpetually offended grow a thicker hide. Rewarding work, if you have a healthy sense of humour.
RBG cannot hold a pencil, nor hold her head or hands upright as needed to type on a keyboard. So the decision wasn’t really hers … but that of the cabal of sycophants surrounding her bedside.
I keep hearing rumours of such. It is exactly what one would expect of them. Can you direct us to solid evidence?
She’s been dead for quite awhile, it’s her body that doesn’t know it yet.
“Let’s have a special exemption from the First Amendment for our preferred religious symbols”
Oh, that’ll work out well. I really, really don’t get this: you all know what happens when Not Our Guys are in charge, but you’re happy to use the brute force of government to get your way even knowing full well it will eventually be turned against you.
Why does no-one ever hit upon the trivial solution to these issues, which is to sell the 10 or so square feet the cross is sitting on to a non-profit, private historical conservancy? No First Amendment issue, cross stays where it is, and people who feel so damn strongly about it can donate to the conservancy to cover the costs of upkeep.
The people who don’t want the cross tend to have much more money than those who do, and would happily buy that 10 square feet, or thereabouts, just to be rid of any reminder of a God that isn’t money.
Part of the hard task ahead of us is making sure that when Not Our Guys (as you call them) are finally stripped of their power over decent people, they are never suffered to wield it again. The only way to be sure of that is to send them to join their master in hell right away, or to a prison camp without hope of coming out alive.
As that is exactly what they are planning for us, I am perfectly all right with that.
For the entire 87 page ruling:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1717_4f14.pdf
“In 1918, residents of Prince George’s County, Maryland, formed a committee for the purpose of erecting a memorial for the county’s soldiers who fell in World War I. The committee decided that the memorial should be a cross, which was not surprising since the plain Latin cross had become a central symbol of the war. The image of row after row of plain white crosses marking the overseas graves of soldiers was emblazoned on the minds of Americans at home. The memorial would stand at the terminus of another World War I memorial—the National Defense Highway connecting Washington to Annapolis. When the committee ran out of funds, the local American Legion took over the project, completing the memorial in 1925. The 32-foot tall Latin cross displays the American Legion’s emblem at its center and sits on a large pedestal bearing, inter alia, a bronze plaque that lists the names of the 49 county soldiers who had fallen in the war. At the dedication ceremony, a Catholic priest offered an invocation and a Baptist pastor offered a benediction.”
Hardly an infringement of the Establishment Clause given that the memorial was erected by PRIVATE CITIZENS honouring community members who had fallen in WWI. I’m sure the George Soros Closed Society folks are fulminating to the heavens.
“And the fallen soldiers’ final resting places abroad were marked by white crosses or Stars of David, a solemn image that became inextricably linked with and symbolic of the ultimate price paid by 116,000 soldiers.”
Justices Ruth “Bitter” Ginsburg and Sotomayor secularist clingers can’t believe that any of their soldiers who defended their freedom could possibly have had a faith relationship with their God, be it Christian or Jewish.
Yes I’m sure they all fought for the supreme Nothingness…
“In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Matthew 6:7-8
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Oh rest assured that cross will be the least of Ruth’s problems where she’s going.
Assuming she’s not already there, of course.
However NPR has the … Final Solution …
It was erected nearly 100 years ago when bereaved mothers in Bladensburg decided to build a World War I memorial to honor their fallen sons. When they ran out of money, the American Legion took over the project. But by the 1930s, a local parks commission had taken over the memorial and the responsibility for its maintenance.
Today, the cross is more grungy than grand. The concrete is crumbling; a canvas tarp covers the top, and without the $100,000 that the parks commission has budgeted for repair, the monument looks like it may not be long for this world.
NPR is directing the government to simply allow the cross to rot. To refuse any maintenance or care whatsoever. Yeah … to treat the symbol of Christianity as shabbily as they would treat every practitioner of Christianity. Yes … there is a WAR on Christianity.
A go fund me candidate
yup Steve, I was going to post that. These lefty snowflakes just can’t take a joke,
Ecclesiates 3:11b states: He has also set eternity in the human heart.
That is why crosses are so common in cemeteries which provides some evidence for the truth of scripture. Also the reason why a cross was chosen originally for this monument.
I’ll be dancing a jig when old Ruthie two-names is retired from the bench and on her way to a retirement facility in Florida
I think as A Canadian stated that she’ll be going a lot further south than Florida.
I wonder if RBG has looked out the windows on the front of the court building. There are four panes, separated by … yep, a cross.
Those windows need to be replaced! 🙁
…if it was a big black cube…..they would all be dancing and chanting around it
^ Thread winner ^
So only the “Wise Latina” and the corpse were stuck on stupid. Even Ogabe’s other appointment Kagan refused to demonstrate her usual idiocy. Interesting.
I’m not shocked but saddened that this was even an issue. A pox on the two votes for removal.
There is no legal separation of church and state in the US. There is a prohibition on establishing a federal state religion. Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia had state religions. The prohibition on the establishment of a federal state religion has been extrapolated to include state and local governments as never intended by the founders. Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire had state religions long after the passage of the Bill of Rights.
This is good news. The coming darkness has been rolled back a little, for a while.
“RBG is turning over in her grave.”
Thank you, that made me laugh.
scar said: “There is no legal separation of church and state in the US. There is a prohibition on establishing a federal state religion. Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia had state religions. The prohibition on the establishment of a federal state religion has been extrapolated to include state and local governments as never intended by the founders. Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire had state religions long after the passage of the Bill of Rights”
Exactly, the separation of powers between the feds and the states, where the feds were subservient to the states. In fact, the supreme court just decided double jeopardy is allowed to be done if the charges come from separate jurisdictions. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/us/politics/supreme-court-double-jeopardy.html
What really bothers me about this entire thing though is that these lawsuits by atheists are in direct conflict with the first amendment clause:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”
Atheism is itself a form of religious philosophy, thus a religion, and it is being forced on everyone, thus by law the government is essentially establishing a religion. Additionally, the government is also prohibiting the free exercise of religion when the religion is not government approved.
Does the left want to remove all those crosses standing over the graves at “some of” the national cemeteries, including the Arlington National Cemetery’s crosses?
It’d be a short fight if they tried. Really short.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_Robert_F._Kennedy
Yes I know most are crosses engraved onto the marble, some are not, and so purposely choose a Democrat’s grave for the example.
Their ultimate aim.
oh ya, and speaking of crosses, when will the edict from on high be announced that the crosses at the Normandy cemetery and ALL similar be knocked to pieces.
given enough time, ANYTHING can happen. no limit to the evil peoplekind is capable of.
Rumor has it, that upon seeing the cross the old Ruth Baader-Meinhof, burst into flames and changed into a bat. The bat then frantically kept trying to flea, repeatedly bouncing its head against a closed window. Fortunately a Wise Latina threw a black cloak over bat’s head and calmed it down holding it against her bosom by quietly singing The Internationale.
Lol! Quite possibly her favourite tune.
I get it now. Ruthie is of the undead. It will take a wooden stake.
On an unrelated note: garlic bread has been removed from SCOTUS cafeteria. Silverware has also been replaced by reusable non-plastic-plastic-sort-a-thingies but possibly it was done only to honor our PM that was visiting at the same time.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”
Why is the SCOTUS even hearing a Religious legal complaint… They are part of the Government and Prohibiting the free exercise of religious expression is forbidden….NO law means NO law
Help me understand please. What would your response be if Hindus want to erect a Swastika on public land in honour of the Hindu soldiers who died for the Allies in WW2?
“The Swastika is a sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It is also a sign of spiritual purity. The swastika was a letter in the ancient Sanskrit language. It meant luck or well being. It is also found on Byzantine buildings, Ancient Greek coinage and in Native American burial sites.”
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Very simple: western: good, not western: go back to your shithole. Hope that explains it.