Article from The Daily Caller by Kevin Daley.
The Supreme Court turned back a constitutional challenge to a 40-foot World War I memorial cross in Maryland Thursday, finding that the monument does not violate the First Amendment.
Justice Samuel Alito delivered the opinion for the Court, with a total of seven justices finding that the memorial — known colloquially as the Peace Cross — should be upheld. The decision drew a deluge of separate opinions. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor were the two dissenters.
“After the First World War, the picture of row after row of plain white crosses marking the overseas graves of soldiers who had lost their lives in that horrible conflict was emblazoned on the minds of Americans at home, and the adoption of the cross as the Bladensburg memorial must be viewed in that historical context,” Alito wrote.
“It 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,’” he added.
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So, I wonder if Civil War era memorials will be allowed to remain as well?
When men fought in the Civil War, it was considered to be for “the good of the Country,” as a whole. To have removed such monuments and statutes was to say this never happened! We know it did. The monuments and statutes showed us the HISTORY OF THIS NATION. They should never have been removed. History is not always peaches and cream, sometimes there is a raw cruelty intermixed. We, as Americans, know, you must take the good and the bad in order to move forward.