So who’s going to replace all the tens of thousands of crosses in Arlington Cemetery? Give me a break!!!!
I’m sure that a negative decision by the Supreme Court will stop crosses from popping up at scenes of officer’s deaths...
What ever the faith of the officers, they died serving and protecting all citizens. The government representing all citizens, of faith or none, using citizens dollars without earmarks, could have created memorials with badges or shapes of the state or any nonsectarian symbol. Did those in charge pick this fight for a reason, or are they just stupid?
“This is yet another example of how the Establishment Clause has been turned on its head and is now being used by the courts to prohibit the guaranteed ‘free exercise’ of religion,”
Eactly!
the Family Research Council said.
This reminds me of a big problem with what passes as "news" these days. Many people might accept this as a news article since it's from a news organization, but it's not. It's an opinion piece with input from only one side of the issue.
This ruling is a result of how the Marxist win by changing the meaning of words. Religion has a definition that includes having leaders, rewards and punishments for certain behavior, and rituals among other things. A symbol of belief is not my itself a Religion. Through the convoluted login of “post modernism” word not longer mean what we though they do, they mean whatever the Marxist wants them to mean in a particular context, or postmodern hermeneutics .
So to say that showing a cross promotes a religion is a farce and just another attack on our culture and our Christian beginnings, to eliminate God from our culture so that our rights are no longer inalienable rights endowed by our creator, but rights a government gives you and can be taken away or modified at a bureaucrats whim.