California Gets it Wrong

A federal judge ruled that a cross standing above a war memorial on publicly owned land as constitutional last Tuesday according to this article .

According to the story via the LA Times U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns wrote:
"The court finds the memorial at Mt. Soledad, including its Latin cross, communicates the primarily nonreligious messages of military service, death and sacrifice. As such, despite its location on public land, the memorial is constitutional."

WHAAAAA?????

How in the hell is a cross nonreligious? That’s like saying a pentagram is just a different way to play hopscotch.

Quite possibly the cross is the most well known symbol in the world and it is known as a Christian symbol, end of discussion.

Burns did agree that the cross is the predominant symbol of Christians but also wrote:
"It does not follow the cross has no other meaning or significance." He cited exhibits on public beaches in nearby Santa Monica, and went on to state that the cross is also displayed "along with numerous purely secular symbols in an overall context that reinforces its secular message."

I disagree Judge, a cross placed in a myriad of secular symbols (they remained unnamed in the story) would seemingly stand out even more as a religious symbol.

It’d be different if the park were sponsored by the letter "t" but this is blatant endorsement of religion.

I feel like if I had served then I would be pissed and feel a little pissed on by the very government I was protecting.

According to one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, a member of Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, there are other religious symbols at the memorial but none near as large as the 43 foot tall cross.