[Kenny Bunkport]

What happens if the city refuses to take down the cross, or pay the fine?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Why doesn't the city just sell the land to a Catholic church for $1.00 and issue the required permits for allowing the cross.

[Jeff Head]

Sell the property to a non-profit, private group who then maintains the cross in perpetuity.

[mylife]

these people are despicable

[the anti-liberal]

Too bad we can't put the judge up on that cross...

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

What about all the crosses in the national cemeteries. Isn't that a violation of church and state? Another anti-Christ religious bigot in a robe.

[hattend]

BTTT

[avile]

let the illegals make human barricades to block its removal

[martinidon]

Here is another democratic supported action by the ACLU. When will the Republicans wake up and start using these actions against the democrats???????

[HitmanLV]

Given the ACLU's pathological fear of crosses, I have begun to consider that they may be an organization of vampires.

[HitmanLV]

Given the ACLU's pathological fear of crosses, I have begun to consider that they may be an organization of vampires.

[llevrok]

So how does the ACLU allow veteran's cemeteries with the religious headstones ?

[Chena]

The sale originally was upheld but later ruled unconstitutional by the full panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco and remanded back to district court to work out a remedy.

You'd think that the commonsense solution would be the transfer of land ownership. However, the sale was ruled "unconstitutional...". Can any of our expert FReepers tell us why that sale would have been unconstitutional?

[SES1066]

Judge Gordon Thompson - A Nixon Appointee from 1970. I never have been a fan of his court appointments - better than Carter & Clinton but then who wasn't?

This is another case of "I'm offended - take it away before I get offended again!" No matter how it is pointed out that the US Constitution prohibits government support of any particular religious operation or effort, the ACLU and the Social Liberals trot out Jefferson's letter as proof of total church-state separation.

A letter, not a law or amendment that was voted upon, and yet this is their PROOF! We have had nothing like this attack until the Earl Warrne court and the conversion of the judiciary into a law-making body that John Marshall wouldn't recognize in his worst nightmare. A pox on the 9th Circuit and may all who deserve it get the gout! Bah!

[sheana]

Well San Diego can take down the cross, put up a flag pole, and raise the Mexican flag. That should satisfy the judge and many politicians at the same time.

[Thunder90]

ACLU=American Communist "Liberation" (Enslavement) Unit

[nosofar]

In a ruling now on appeal, however, a Superior Court judge found the transfer unconstitutional.

I never understood this. How can a uncoerced transfer of one's own (the city's) property be considered unconstitutional? Idiocy.

[oldbrowser]

Who gets the money from the fine ?

[little jeremiah]

What we need is a whole bunch of civil disobedience. Cities just plain refusing to cooperate. What's the ACLU going to do? I suppose US marshals or something will come and remove the cross.

I'm really disgusted. FUBAR.