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Posted on 05/28/2012 7:48:22 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
The Woonsocket, R.I. Cross was erected in 1921 as a memorial to U.S. servicemen who answered this nation’s call to duty in World War I.
The Mount Soledad Cross in San Diego was erected in 1954 to honor those who gave their lives in defense of the stars and stripes in World War II.
The Big Mountain Jesus statue in Whitefish, Mont. was installed in 1955 in tribute to veterans of the Great War.
How ironic that, on this day on which a grateful nation pays homage to America’s sons and daughters that have fallen in battle, the three aforementioned war memorials are in danger of being removed from the respective sites on which they have stood for more than half a century.
In all three cases, the memorials are under attack by purpose-driven atheists who argue that the presence of Christian icons on publicly-owned land are unconstitutional violations of the First Amendment’s so-called “Establishment Clause,” which declares that “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion.
Well Congress made no law creating the war memorials atWoonsocket, Mount Soledadand Whitefish. Nor did lawmakers commission the crosses or statue. The memorials, the Christian icons, were all the work of private organizations.
So the atheists make the claim that the Establishment Clause is much broader than written. That allows them to assert than any war memorial on any public land – federal, state or local – must be entirely godless
But the time to make that dubious argument was back in the 1920s, when the Woonsocket Cross was erected, and the 1950s, when the Mount Soledad Cross was erected and Big Mountain Jesus installed. Not 90-something years or 50-something years after the fact.
And just how far are the courts going to let atheist hate groups go?
Like the so-called Freedom from Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wisconsin, which has threatened legal action against both the city of Woonsocket and the U.S. Forest Service (which leases the land on which Big Mount Jesus sits to a private ski resort).
As Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Gilmartin said, in defense of the Woonsocket Cross, “Our national cemeteries are filled with grave markers including the cross and the Star of David. Should they be removed also?”
The atheist extremists at Freedom From Religion Foundation – who not only have petitioned the courts to order removal of religious symbols at war memorials, but also to block the annual National Day of Prayer, and to strike the words “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency – would probably answer in the affirmative.
That is why they are unworthy of the freedom for which America’s sons and daughters in uniform have fought and died. For the atheists begrudge our fallen heroes a few acres of public land in places like Woonsocket, Mount Soledad and Whitefish simply because the war memorials there invoke the Son of Man.
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I love it....”some wore T shirts”.But it figures,actually....wearing a T shirt is one of the best ways,in the mind of a community organizer,to “speak truth to power”.
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27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Great article. F**k the atheists! They and their organizations should be sued for their malicious campaigns and made penniless
The case of Mt. Soledad in San Diego is particularly galling, because the liberals won their case over 20 years ago. In winning their case, the cross and park on which the cross sits was transferred to private ownership at one time. That wasn’t enough for the atheists.
The story of Mt. Soledad is very long, and spans over 20 years. Too long to tell the whole story here. There is lots online about it if you are interested.
But my problem with this whole thing, is that they actually won their case years ago, the cross was transferred to private ownership, but that wasn’t good enough for them. They have been in court ever since, challenging issues such as how the land was transferred, how was fair market value determined, was a preference given to sell the cross to those who would maintain it, as opposed to those who would do something else with it, and other bogus issues. They filed follow up lawsuits asking that the cross be torn down.
To me, there is a difference between transferring land ownership of the cross, and trying to get a liberal judge to order that the cross be torn down.
And it’s galling to think that we have to face tearing down crosses because a small number of atheists are offended. It apparently doesn’t matter what the law is on these matters is. It only matters that some liberal interest group is offended.
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