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Posted on 06/22/2006 1:44:05 PM PDT by RDTF
ANN ARBOR, MI – A three–judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stay Federal District Judge Gordon Thompson’s order to remove the Mt. Soledad Cross pending an appeal. Thus, the City of San Diego must remove the Cross by August 1, 2006, or face fines of $5,000 per day thereafter. In its decision, however, the Ninth Circuit scheduled oral arguments on the matter for the week of October 16, 2006, weeks after the Cross is to be removed. The 43- foot Cross was erected in 1954 and currently is the centerpiece of a national memorial honoring American veterans of all wars. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been fighting to save the Cross since 2004 when it received information that the private memorial association operating the memorial site and the City were about to agree to settle the case, which had been on going for 15 years, by removing the Cross.
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That cross wont come down. Believe me my Christian soldiers.
I was just thinking that...I'd be glad to contribute to a $5000/day bill to keep the cross there.
It's private land? I thought the city owned it.
The Ninth circuit should be drawn and quartered.
There should be thousand stading in line forming a no violent protest the day its scheduled to come down.
Effigies of the ACLU should be burned.
...and the libs can't figure out why they keep losing elections.
I believe that's been tried, and it's been blocked. I don't know the details, but there have been a number of attempts at a "workaround," but all have been blocked.
Someone really, really, wants that cross removed.
How much faith in them do you have that they'd rule to leave it be?
The people in this country are just going to have to start totally disobeying these stupid judges orders. Let em push the 5k a day and then try to collect!
I don't believe the judiciary was meant to be the end all for legislation. We are being ruled by the personal beliefs of judges. All rulings like this should be disobeyed.
The city tried to sell the land to a private group but the courts shot that downing saying that the sale demonstrated government preference for religion.
"reminds me of the taliban destroying the statues they didn't believe in.."
Could not have said it better.
In other news The City of San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obisbo, San Jose, Santa Monica, et al will soon be changing their names.
It'd really stick in their craw.
I am beginning to think liberals are vampires.
(Since they are repelled by the sign of the cross and all.)
Maybe we should start putting up mirrors and planting garlic to see if that works, too.
Or maybe ghouls, since they like dead, unbaptised, babies, too.
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Well now they want to cannibalize those dead babies for "tissue". If is non-viable, then why are they trying to use it?
I seem to recall that 2/3 of the 9th Circus' rulings are overturned. Certainly hope this is one of them, and before they can actually force the cross down.
Hence the ghoul refernce.
(In myth, ghouls lived off the flesh of the dead, and particularlly preferred the flesh of unbaptised infants.)
Yep. Sucking the money right out of our wallets to fund their religion, I've been saying left-liberalism is a religion for years. The Cross is competition.
If a memorial cannot have a cross, then how can a national cemetary have any crosses?
And there are those who oppose the drunk driver crosses the dot the roads.
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