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Posted on 12/13/2014 11:11:38 AM PST by South40
Law could let landmark stay through private ownership of property
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A law allowing the transfer of the plot of land beneath the Mount Soledad cross from government to private ownership sailed through Congress on Friday and was headed to President Barack Obama to sign.
But hope that the bill might put an end to the 25-year litigation surrounding the religious La Jolla symbol on public land is fraught with many yet unanswered questions, including details of the land deal and whether it would pass muster in the courts, especially considering previous efforts have failed.
The measure was tucked into the National Defense Authorization Bill, a massive $585 billion military spending bill passed by the House last week and by the Senate on Friday. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, introduced the measure.
It allows the 29-foot cross, which sits on a 14-foot veterans memorial displaying some 3,600 plaques, and the surrounding land to be acquired by the Mount Soledad Memorial Association. The private group built the cross in 1954 and has maintained the memorial since.
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It’s a shame we live in a country where National Monuments have to be sold to a private concern to keep them from being destroyed.
It is almost as if the destruction is intentional.
When is comes to religion, atheists are America’s Taliban, i.e. no religion but ours.
Sorry, not all atheists, just the militant ones.
Thank you. I’m an atheist, and I found the whole Soleded Cross controversy to be ridiculous. A cross on public land? So what!
Atheists and Gays are in the same boat with me. Go do you own thing and I don't give a $hit! But a lot of both groups seem to get the idea that the way that they “legitimize” their perversions is to litigate issues like this ad nausium which only pi$$es the rest of us off.
I find myself agreeing. When my fellow atheists start this kind of crap, I have this overwhelming urge to whomp them upside the head and tell them to get a life.
This sucks you could see this cross on freeway on 805 going into 5
So?
The doctrine of debate, discussion and the expression of different points of view all assume those creating the debate (like the idiot starting the legal objection)have something to say. They usually don't.
Potatoes O’Brien
***The private group built the cross in 1954 and has maintained the memorial since.***
In what year was the first complaint? Anyone not liking it should have complained when it was built.
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