{"id":21725,"date":"2011-01-05T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T11:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21725"},"modified":"2011-01-05T07:55:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T11:55:21","slug":"another-war-memorial-in-danger-from-aclu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21725","title":{"rendered":"Another war memorial in danger from ACLU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21726 aligncenter\" title=\"cross\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cross.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cross-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another war memorial cross in California, this one in San Diego is under fire from the American Civil Liberty Union. The cross, erected in 1954 to memorialize veterans of the Korean War has been determined to be unconstitutional by, who else, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/01\/04\/judges-rule-cross-calif-park-unconstitutional\/?test=latestnews\">the 9th Circuit panel of judges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In no way is this decision meant to undermine the importance of honoring our veterans,&#8221; the three judges said in their ruling. &#8220;Indeed, there are countless ways that we can and should honor them, but without the imprimatur of state-endorsed religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Federal courts are reviewing several cases of crosses on public lands being challenged as unconstitutional, including a cross erected on a remote Mojave Desert outcropping to honor American war dead. Tuesday&#8217;s ruling could influence future cases involving the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle said the federal government, which is defending the San Diego cross, is studying the ruling and had no comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So according the article, the court hasn&#8217;t ordered that the cross be removed, only that alterations can be made to keep the cross where it was built more than 56 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another war memorial cross in California, this one in San Diego is under fire from the &hellip; <a title=\"Another war memorial in danger from ACLU\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21725\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another war memorial in danger from ACLU<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}