Ninth Circuit Decides: The Mt. Soledad Cross Will Come Down, "Memorial Would Be Desecrated"

Thomas Moore Law Center ^ | June 22, 2006 | TMLC

[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.

[Louis Foxwell]

The separation of powers gives other branches of government the clear right to ignore the courts. Sadly there have been few executives with the conviction to do so.

[Mark was here]

Agreed. A huge human wall protecting the cross. That would make a huge statement.

Your friendly neighborhood cops would rather crack your skull wide open then risk their paychecks. Get in their way when they go to desecrate the cross at your own peril.

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.
"The lefty behind this I believe lives in another part of the city."

The fact that one person, "from another part of the City" is able to force this on San Diego somehow makes it even more obscene.

Michael Frazier

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.
"The lefty behind this I believe lives in another part of the city."

The fact that one person, "from another part of the City" is able to force this on San Diego makes it even more obscene.

Michael Frazier

[brazzaville]

Sorry for the double tap

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yep, the Secular Taliban strikes again.

[Ready4Freddy]

The city owns most of the land, apparently, & the Association is managing the Memorial(s). The Mt. Soledad Memorial Association site says that they "Purchased land in 1999 at the top of Mt. Soledad, now the site of Veterans Memorial Walls.", which leads me to believe that the Cross (which is actually their Korean War Memorial) is situated on City land?

[sergeantdave]

Until there are consequences to their illegal actions, the left will continue toward their goal of destroying America and establishing a Marxist state.

[Ready4Freddy]

See post #87.

It's private land? I thought the city owned it.

[Prince Charles]

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.

The War On Jesus rolls merrily along.

[Deo volente]

The devil believes in God, but he can't stand the thought of Him.

Liberals know (or fear) deep down there is a God, but they simply can't stand any public acknowledgment of Him.

The sight of this cross up on that mountain sticks in their craw something awful.

[Frank Sheed]

When do they outlaw all crosses in U.S. Military Cemeteries? I want to be there the day the ACLU begins to take those away.

[Frank Sheed]

http://www.shopswiss.com/clothing3.html

Wear one of these. They haven't banned Switzerland yet.

[Ready4Freddy]

Wow, just like the caps that Genuine Swiss Baseball Players wear!!!! ;>)

[Uncle Vlad]

The Taliban have come to America...

[nonliberal]

City of San Diego must remove the Cross by August 1, 2006, or face fines of $5,000 per day thereafter

Let's see them try to collect it.

[oldbrowser]

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

And where does the money go ?

[Frank Sheed]

And the white cross is authentic even!

;-o)

[oldbrowser]

The fact that one person, "from another part of the City" is able to force this on San Diego somehow makes it even more obscene.

I just bet this guy is the kind of person who would never lift a finger to defend the country or a fellow citizen.

[nonliberal]

Get in their way when they go to desecrate the cross at your own peril.

That is why you go well-armed.