{"id":88214,"date":"2019-06-20T17:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88214"},"modified":"2019-06-20T17:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:17:58","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-cross-on-public-land-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88214","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds cross on public land in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn this Feb. 13, 2019 file photo, visitors walk around the 40-foot Maryland Peace Cross dedicated to World War I soldiers in Bladensburg, Md. The Supreme Court says the World War I memorial in the shape of a 40-foot-tall cross can continue to stand on public land in Maryland. The high court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the nearly 100-year-old memorial. The justices ruled that its presence on public land doesn\u2019t violate the First Amendment\u2019s establishment clause. That clause prohibits the government from favoring one religion over others.(AP Photo\/Kevin Wolf)<\/p>\n

Quite a news day- Iran shooting down one of our drones, a stunning confession in the Eddie Gallagher murder case, and now SCOTUS finds a memorial cross on a Maryland veterans cemetery can stand.<\/p>\n

JESSICA GRESKO
\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A 40-foot-tall, World War I memorial cross can continue to stand on public land in Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in an important decision about the use of religious symbols in American life.<\/p>\n

The justices said preserving a long-standing religious monument is very different from allowing the building of a new one. And the court concluded that the nearly 100-year-old memorial’s presence on a grassy highway median doesn’t violate the Constitution’s prohibition on the government favoring one religion over others. Seven of the court’s nine justices sided with the cross’ backers, a lineup that crossed ideological lines.<\/p>\n

The case had been closely watched for its potential impact on other monuments. Defenders of the cross in Bladensburg, a suburb of the nation’s capital, had argued that a ruling against them could doom hundreds of war memorials that use crosses to commemorate soldiers who died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seven to two. Read the rest of the article here: Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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