Well, folks - blush, blush.....thanks for appreciating my comments.
Which brings me to more comments. I assume that most of you have heard of the Cross that sits on Mt. Soledad in La Jolla - San Diego, California.
A decades long battle by an athiest (recently deceased) has been waged to remove that Cross from public property. Though the athiest has died, the battle rages on.
We mounted a huge campaign to get this on the ballot and it was overwhelmingly approved by the people of this city to keep the Cross where it is. Still a judge overturned the results of the vote. Duncan Hunter (presidential candidate) and Brian Bilbray and other Republican represntatives from this area persuaded Pres. Bush to take this land as a National Monument to keep the Cross where it is - as a war memorial - which it also is.
But the other forces have not given up and the battle STILL continues - probably all the way to the Supreme Court.
What I really want to say is that you should know the huge effort in this fight to keep the Cross - was run by a Jew. No, not me - but another Jew - I had lunch with him. I, as a Jew, voted to keep this Cross on the mountain.
I am not sure where the law is about the Cross on public property - I assume the Supreme Court will someday rule on that - but I do know that if we tear down that Cross, we will next tear down the Star of David, and then the Churches and Synagoges and we'll all go down the tubes together.
But, that's not the end of it. When all our religious symbols are gone it will leave a vacuum. Nature hates a vacuum. And there is Islam waiting to fill it - as it has already done in Europe.
And when those symbols and our Houses of Worship are gone, so too will our other American institutions: self-government.
That Cross on Mt. Soledad is the symbol of the health of my beloved country. Our beloved country.
Your last line brought tears to my eyes. It seems...how rare it is to hear that.