Posted on 05/29/2009 6:59:57 AM PDT by La Lydia
It was my old friend and mentor, Luigi Barzini, who asseverated, "Americans talk too much." The year was 1978, and I cannot recall the controversy that had aroused him. Luigi's point was that...he thought our jabbering was again obscuring careful thought. He was a great friend of America...He thought we often argued garrulously about things that were not worth the argument.
A case is about to be tried in the Supreme Court that fits Luigi's diagnosis. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit in 2001 demanding that a 7-foot cross erected in the California desert in 1934 commemorating sacrifices endured by our soldiers in World War I be taken down. At some point after 1934, the land on which the cross was erected became federally protected, and thus the cross became a fit issue for the ACLU's squalling about the separation of church and state.
The creation of this World War I monument was - get this! - part of a 1930s medical program to help World War I veterans recover from shell shock...In 2004, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the ACLU, but veterans groups objected - thus the case's journey to the Supreme Court.
It would seem to me the cross is a historic monument that need not be subject to contemporary fashions in thought...
That is not the way the battle-axes at the ACLU see it...Well, "we" did not choose the symbol. Veterans from what was once called the Great War did, apparently with the consent of their physicians. This is an interesting historic memorial that the ACLU would deny us....very often the right, or more specifically "the Christian right," is merely defending settled manifestations of religion that go back decades in our history, occasionally centuries...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The ACLU so abuses the concept of separation of church and state.
The ACLU is even more corrupt than ACORN if such a thing is possible.
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