Federal Appeals Court Upholds ACLU Charge - Cross in Mojave Federal Preserve Violates Constitution

ACLU Website ^ | 06/07/2004 | ACLU

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LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court today upheld a lower court’s ruling that the presence of a large Christian cross on the federal Mojave Desert Preserve is an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion.

“The court took a look at this issue and concluded that the case couldn't be clearer: a religious symbol on government property violates the U.S. Constitution," said Peter Eliasberg, a managing attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, which brought the challenge. "At every level the courts have rightly agreed with this principle and there's no reason to believe that any amount of political grandstanding is going to impact years of established jurisprudence on these matters."

Ruling unanimously, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a July 2002 opinion that the "primary effect of the presence of the cross" was to "advance religion" and therefore violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Some posters try to convince me that the ACLU doesn't have an anti-Christian agenda. They have a long way to go to prove otherwise. Even more disgraceful is the fact that many of their membership is made up of self-loathing Jews purposely working toward destroying their own legacy. Nazis are laughing in Hell.

[vpintheak]

Do those BAstards in the American Communist Liberation Union ever sleep?! They won't quit until a leader with some guts stands up to them and the judicial sympathisers.