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Posted on 08/11/2011 12:43:09 PM PDT by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut
The Ground Zero Cross Must Continue to Stand Atheists have filed a lawsuit to have the Cross -- that was found in the wreckage of the World Trade Center days after 9/11 -- removed from the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. The ACLJ is fighting back.
As the American Atheists continue their inflammatory comments about the Ground Zero Cross, an update on our efforts to preserve the Cross - a symbol of hope and comfort - for future generations.
This is currently what is happening from the ACLJ:
We are days away from filing our legal brief, and the atheists who are suing to have the Ground Zero Cross removed are stepping up their angry rhetoric. The President of American Atheists believes the reason a clear majority of Americans want the Cross placed at the 9-11 memorial and museum is because, “Christianity hates that [9/11] had nothing to do with them.” Now that is a statement born of anger and ignorance.
(Excerpt) Read more at aclj.org ...
More from the ACLJ: You can help us reach our goal by forwarding this message to your friends and by using the Facebook “Like” buttons in this email.
So many of you have already taken action in support of the Ground Zero Cross and stood by the ACLJ as we defend our liberties in court. We are days away from filing our legal arguments in this case with the court; but because of your support, I want to give you a first look at what we are going to say.
Here is a short excerpt of what we will be presenting to the court: In the days and weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the challenged World Trade Center Cross (the “Cross”) had a widely documented and positive effect on the first responders at the Ground Zero site. It is entirely appropriate and lawful for the curators of a museum to acknowledge the Cross’s historic role by placing it in the National September 11 Memorial Museum. The Supreme Court of the United States has directly addressed the constitutionality of religiously-themed museum exhibits and has clearly held that such exhibits are within the realm of appropriate government speech. In fact, the constitutionality of religious displays in museums has long been presumed by the Court. Simply put, historically significant religious artifacts can be displayed in taxpayer-supported museums, and any contrary ruling would lead to absurd results. I made a similar argument in Pleasant Grove v. Summum to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. The amicus brief we are filing to keep the Ground Zero Cross at the National September 11 Memorial Museum is just the first step in what will be a long legal battle, but I am confident we will win this battle as well.
Once you have signed, please encourage your friends, coworkers, and neighbors to join us in this fight by forwarding this email. You can also join the nearly 10,000 Americans who have shared the Committee to Protect the Ground Zero Cross on Facebook by using the “Like” buttons in this email.
Thank you for taking a stand for the Ground Zero Cross and for your continued support for the ACLJ.
Sincerely,
Jay Sekulow ACLJ Chief Counsel
P.S. I just told you a little about the winning argument made resulting in a precedent-setting, unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court Justices in a case that has significant bearing on the current Ground Zero Cross case. You can hear the argument I made before the U.S. Supreme Court and watch a short, three-minute video about that case by following this link to ACLJ.org and scrolling down to the case name: Pleasant Grove v. Summum.
This cross found in the tragic wreckage is an important symbol for the many Christians killed in this horror. However, I am sure a large number of Jews were also killed. Will there be a star of David or similar symbol displayed also. As Israel supporters, how do FReepers feel about supporting other symbols there as well?
Thank you for your reply.
This Cross was found in the wreckage of the World Trade Center. It is not something Christians created to put there to show a Christian symbol. If a star of David was part of the wreckage that would be pretty incredible, don’t you think, and if it were, I would definately want it preserved!
Create some of these symbols out of steel from the wreckage. That would be okay.
Sure. Put ‘em on a slab of granite somewhere.
Personally, I’d have preferred a 9/11 memorial like this one:
...
They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man’s chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below,
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know.
Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris—
The price of a white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.
People have posted in similar threads how this is simply an accidental combination of chance and a piece of structural debris, it was not a purposefully created object.
However, the circumstance in which it was found and its appearance, brought certain things to mind in the people who discovered it and viewed it later through media.
It’s not the existence of a physical cross that’s at issue, otherwise we would be getting lawsuits over crossroads, telephone poles, the letter “t”...
It’s the impression it makes on people who view it’s appearance, in those circumstances, in that place, on that day, and the feelings that strange co-inciding arouse in us.
Their goal isn’t cross control. It’s the control of human views, thoughts, and expectations.
Well said.
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