Posted on 10/27/2016 9:17:26 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The following article was written by Robert Knight and posted on October 22nd on the American Thinker website.
If you didn’t hear about this last month, it’s for good reason. The media do not like publicizing defeats for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
A 27-year battle with the ACLU over the Mt. Soledad mountaintop cross at a Korean War veterans memorial in San Diego ended in a victory for American heritage. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page ruling calling the case moot on Sept. 8 and directing U.S. district judge Lawrence Byrne to dismiss it, which he did on Sept. 13.
The rulings cite the Mount Soledad Memorial Association’s purchase of the 29-foot cross and the land beneath it from the Department of Defense for $1.4 million in July 2015. The transfer was facilitated by legislation sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a former Marine who represents California’s 50th District, which includes San Diego.
The ruling leaves intact the familiar sight of the imposing cross above the Interstate 5 freeway in La Jolla, and in effect sends the ACLU packing. Can’t you just see the poor, dejected ACLU lawyers stomping down the mountain and throwing their axes into the backseats of their hybrids?
The final outcome was not that surprising, given the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in 2010 in Salazar v. Buono, which approved the sale of federal property to private ownership at a California veterans cemetery. That case involved the Mojave Memorial Cross, which the ACLU tried to tear down on behalf of a retired federal park official who had moved to Oregon but said he was still offended by the 7-foot-high pipe metal cross.
Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund founder Charles LiMandri, who had opposed the ACLU in court since 2004...
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Remember Meigs field and Mayor Daly?
I would not put it past the CA Governor to pull a similar stunt.
YAY! We drove by it all the time for years. It's a valued local icon, or at least it used to be valued. We grew up around a lot of atheists in that area, and no one ever complained about the Mt. Soledad Memorial back then. I never heard anyone speak of it as a religious monument, but rather it was always correctly identified as a veteran's memorial. Of course, this was before the country lost its sanity.
Good catch. Somehow they never follow through on the anarchies that they would seemingly foment, but instead seize power for themselves.
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