Peace Cross can stay, Supreme Court rules
Posted on AllSides June 20th, 2019
From The Right
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Bladensburg’s beloved World War I memorial cross can remain on public lands, rejecting a challenge that it was an illegal entanglement of state and religion.
The court, in a 7-2 decision, ruled that while the cross is a Christian symbol, the one in Bladensburg has “special significance” as a war memorial and expression of the community’s grief at its lost sons.
Justice Samuel A. Alito said that removing it, at this point, would actually be seen as “hostility” toward religion.
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