Supreme Court allows religious display on state land despite challenge over church-state separation
Posted on AllSides June 20th, 2019
From The Left
The Supreme Court got religion Thursday, ruling that a gigantic Latin cross on government land in Maryland does not have to be moved or altered in the name of church-state separation.
The justices reasoned that the 40-foot cross was erected nearly a century ago as a World War I memorial, not an endorsement of Christianity. But while their verdict could extend to other existing monuments, it does not offer a blank check to new ones.
The opinion by Associate Justice Samuel Alito concluded that the display does not violate the...
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