Posted on 08/19/2010 12:37:23 AM PDT by American Dream 246
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that roadside crosses erected to memorialize fallen Utah Highway Patrol officers violate the First Amendments prohibition of government endorsement of religion.
The Denver-based 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals said that the 12-foot-high crosses bearing the name and badge number of deceased officers sent an unconstitutional religious message to motorists on the states highways.
We hold that these memorials have the impermissible effect of conveying to the reasonable observer the message that the state prefers or otherwise endorses a certain religion. They therefore violate the establishment clause of the federal constitution, the appeals court said in a 35-page decision.
Full story: Roadside crosses for fallen Utah police unconstitutional, court rules CSMonitor.com
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/18/roadside-crosses-for-fallen-utah-police-unconstitutional-court-rules/#ixzz0x2DKEewL
Oh well...let’s build them a mosque. I am sure that will not create any problem Crosses..? What an insult to islam. They should have thought about that, indeed.
Religion is bad, unless it’s islam.
I wonder if the symbol put on the roadside was based on the religion of the deceased officer?
I wonder if the symbol put on the roadside was based on the religion of the deceased officer?
I’ll be waiting to hear obama call the court out on this. Like I said, I’ll be waiting....zzzzzzz.....waiting....zzzz.
....can I put a Muslim Crescent?
...but lying about your Military service is ok. Got it.
The liberal war against Christianity increases pace ...
Didn’t a Denver judge rule that it’s fine to lie about military medals earned?
And it’s not going to stop, so please remember that, and be prepared for it. It will ONLY get worse, they start beheading the faithful for not taking the mark.
“I wonder if the symbol put on the roadside was based on the religion of the deceased officer?”
Given the area, highly unlikely. However, crosses have been used as grave markers for a long, long time.
The Fed Gov will appease anyone who is not a Chrsitian (and Jews), because Christians (and to an extent Jews, when they’re not being murdered) are tolerant, whereas most other religions in this debate demand subjection to them. It’s like the playground bully, and people are getting really sick of it.
“Chrsitian”= Christian
It’s not the federal government putting them up.
“Its not the federal government putting them up.”
Bingo, which brings up a bigger issue. The Federal Government should own NO land. All states should reclaim their Federally seized land. In addition, this should be determined by the states. The original judge (if I read correctly) threw the case out. The appeals court ruled against, in an attempt, I belive, to bring it back up to the Supremes who have already decided issed, like the Ten Commandments, etc.
It’s political warriors trying to start a religion war with the simultaneous race war their fomenting, to keep us divided. That’s the only strategy that keeps working. I pray it’ll stop, and soon, and we’ll get rid of the political class by being governed by the people, for the people, not just taking from the people, to advance the position of a few hundred/thousand people. Enough of this dictating to/ruling of the citizenry already.
The irresponsibility of the 14th amendment strikes again!
“The Federal Government should own NO land. All states should reclaim their Federally seized land. In addition, this should be determined by the states.”
Agreed Letting the Federal Government Own land is the source of a lot of our problems. The Feds should sell all the land in their ownership, and uses the money to help pay down the debt.
Might as well kill 2 birds with 1 stone even thou one of them birds is really really huge, and I’m not talking about the debt. The federal Government owning land has causes a lot of really huge problems for us.
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