The Passion of The Christ Re-release is out.
Thanks Mel.
Posted on 03/10/2005 8:28:04 AM PST by Liz
A 43-foot tall cross that was erected atop Mt. Soledad in San Diego, California 50 years ago to honor our Nation’s veterans faces imminent removal unless we act now. An ACLU-backed atheist has waged a 15-year court battle to force removal of the famous cross, and a federal court has ordered the city of San Diego to remove it. One option remains.
Federal law known as the Antiquities Act authorizes the President to designate landmarks and structures as national monuments and make the property on which the monument stands federal property.
President Clinton used this law to establish numerous new national monuments during his term.
In addition, the Historic Sites Act allows the Secretary of the Interior to designate certain sites national historic landmarks and bring them under the care of the National Park Service.
Just recently, on Veterans' Day, a new plaque was added to the Mt. Soledad Memorial to honor President Reagan, further strengthening its status as a monument worthy of national protection. Thus, it is fitting that the President formally designate Mt. Soledad as a national memorial park for veterans, and save it from destruction at the hands of the ACLU. President Bush can save the historic cross from another ACLU-backed removal by designating Mt. Soledad a national monument.
The Antiquities Act authorizes the President to designate landmarks and structures as national monuments. President Bush must make the Mount Soledad cross a national monument.
EMAIL, FAX or PHONE Gov Arnold, and every Republican California legislator to contact the president today asking GWB to launch this initiative:
CA WEB SITE http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:jMbXBSy2Ie8J:www.standingupforcalifornia.com/action/contact-legislators.html
EMAIL, FAX or PHONE every Republican US Senator and Representative:
US GOV WEB SITE http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact.shtml
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City of San Diego Orders 29-Foot Cross Removed from Mountainside
San Diego Union-Tribune | March 9, 2005 | By Matthew T. Hall
The Mount Soledad cross must go, the San Diego City Council said yesterday. The 16-year saga of whether the cross would stay on public land in La Jolla came to an emotional conclusion last night as the council voted 5-3 to reject a last-ditch effort to keep it in place. The vote capped a six-hour public hearing that attracted 350 people, most of them Christians who urged the council to donate the cross and surrounding land to the federal government so it possibly could remain where it has stood since 1954.
But the cross now must be moved to comply with an injunction forbidding its presence on public land. Federal Judge Gordon Thompson Jr. issued the injunction in 1991, when he ruled that the cross violated the state Constitution's guarantee of separation between church and state. Thompson had left it to the city and the lawyers in the case to resolve the matter.
In the latest court decision in the case, a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2002 that the constitutional violation still existed when it struck down the city's second attempt to sell the land to a private buyer. "This is definitely the first page of the final chapter, and I don't expect the final chapter to last another five years," lawyer James McElroy said last night. "I think we are at the end of the line here."
McElroy represents Philip Paulson, one of two atheists who filed the original lawsuit against the city in 1989. He said attorneys for the city as well as the group that maintains the cross and Paulson will meet soon to finalize plans for when and where to move the cross, which stands 29 feet tall on top of a 5-foot-high base. McElroy said he would call the City Attorney's Office today, and that the cross could be moved within 90 days.
This nonsense is beyond EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE...!
It is up on my blog now!
http://www.stoptheaclu.blogspot.com
They'll try anything once.......they just might not get away with it.......this time.
ping
SAVE THE CROSS ON MT SOLEDAD
Contact CALI Republican US Congressman and Senators to call on President Bush to launcg the monument to veterans' initiative (sample letter above).
Might also contact the state Republican party to alert conservative state legislators.
Contact CALI churches and Christian groups affiliated with your denomination.
Pass the word to as many individual Christians as possible.
Thanks for the links, Liz.
I'll "get 'er dun!" LOL
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Thanks, Kelly......... we can always count on you to get the job done. God bless.
Back in high school, our XC team had a summer camp at a campground in Mission Bay. Our morning run usually consisted of running up to the top of Mt. Soledad (and down again). We were always quite happy to make it to the top. It's a pretty spectacular landmark, and should stay.
What can we do? this really makes me sick!
WE should go stand in front of the cross during this lenten season!
Thanks for the realtime story.........your voice is especially important in this initiative.
Bump!
Great idea.....a candlelight vigil ....until the cross is saved.
Thanks for the ping!
My blog is having problems accepting comments. But it is posted there.
The Passion-Recut comes out today! Let's Spread the word ladies!
Happy Friday!
Great news! Thank you!
I guess that huge ugly terroritst ridden mosque on the hill above san diego is ok though??? right?
I wouldn't be surprised - it appears that all things Christian are the object of religious intolerance these days.
The Passion of The Christ Re-release is out.
Thanks Mel.
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