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Ninth Circuit Decides: The Mt. Soledad Cross Will Come Down, "Memorial Would Be Desecrated"
Thomas Moore Law Center ^ | June 22, 2006 | TMLC

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thomasmore.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: antitheist; blackrobedthugs; christophobia; churchandstate; cross; firstamendment; godless; jesushaters; judicialactivism; judicialtyranny; judiciary; mtsoledad; purge; seculartaliban; waronjesus; wog
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unbelievable
1 posted on 06/22/2006 1:44:07 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: RDTF

Where do we send donations to fund their $5,000 a day bill?
:)


2 posted on 06/22/2006 1:46:17 PM PDT by weegee
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To: RDTF

Take it to the Supremes. Better chance there than with the 9th Circus...


3 posted on 06/22/2006 1:46:20 PM PDT by el_texicano (Liberals, Socialist, DemocRATS, all touchy, feely, mind numbed robots, useless idiots all)
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To: RDTF

Put the judges under the cross as they drop it.


4 posted on 06/22/2006 1:48:22 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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To: RDTF

They should sell the mountain to a private organization.

Like a church.


5 posted on 06/22/2006 1:48:40 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: RDTF

And yet the crescent "memorial" commemorating the 9-11 attacks continues.


6 posted on 06/22/2006 1:48:49 PM PDT by weegee
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To: RDTF

Why couldn't, years ago, they have given the plot of land to someone for a $1 per year on the condition that no improvements be made upon it?


7 posted on 06/22/2006 1:49:23 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: RDTF

Two questions:

How do judges levy taxes like this,
and how do they collect them?


8 posted on 06/22/2006 1:49:25 PM PDT by dangus
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To: RDTF

The Nutty Ninth strikes again


9 posted on 06/22/2006 1:50:03 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: mtbopfuyn

That's the really sick thing about it: It IS private!


10 posted on 06/22/2006 1:50:28 PM PDT by dangus
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To: bmwcyle
The judges and atheists are hoping for this type of photo op:

Will they beat it with their shoes?

11 posted on 06/22/2006 1:50:49 PM PDT by weegee
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To: RDTF

The liberal 9th Circuit court strikes again!


12 posted on 06/22/2006 1:53:06 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room - Dr. Strangelove)
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To: RDTF
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.

Should I infer from this that that would be an en banc hearing? If so, shouldn't they have stayed the lower court's order until the entire 9th has ruled? I'm not understanding what's gone on here.

13 posted on 06/22/2006 1:53:43 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: RDTF

What's more unbelievable:

>> Despite the fact that the ballot proposal passed by an astonishing 76% of the vote, State Court Judge Patricia Cowett ruled that Proposition A violated the California constitution. Her order is being appealed as well. <<

A Constitutional amendment is unconstitutional because the proposed constitution is different from the original. Duh, that's why we are changing it. If, however, the propsed constitution were not so different, however, courts would, and have, strike down the amendment for having no effect.


14 posted on 06/22/2006 1:54:27 PM PDT by dangus
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To: RDTF

Sounds like a win for the Godless.


15 posted on 06/22/2006 1:54:43 PM PDT by wolfcreek
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To: John Jorsett

I think a 3 judge panel ruled on it. I think the next step will be the entire 9th Circuit court


16 posted on 06/22/2006 1:55:22 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room - Dr. Strangelove)
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To: wolfcreek

This case seems headed for The Roberts' Court.


17 posted on 06/22/2006 1:55:59 PM PDT by sono ("May the Wings of Liberty never lose a feather." Jack Burton)
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To: RDTF

It's the 9th Circus. Hopefully, the Supremes will slap them down pretty quickly.


18 posted on 06/22/2006 1:55:59 PM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: RDTF

Oh, I see, this is viewed as "Congress making a law, establishing a religion".

Just how stupid do you have to be to make that leap?


20 posted on 06/22/2006 1:57:20 PM PDT by G Larry (Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
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