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The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower court decision that could have required removal of a cross that has stood in California's Mojave National Preserve for generations.
Although it splintered in its reasoning, the court suggested strongly that the cross should remain because Congress has transferred the small plot on which it stands to a private group, addressing constitutional concerns.
High court supports Mojave cross in Calif. - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100428/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_mojave_cross - broken link)
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Wednesday that a lower court went too far in ordering the removal of a congressionally endorsed war memorial cross from its longtime home atop a remote outcropping in California.
Signaling support for keeping the cross, the justices ordered the federal court in California to look again at Congress' plan to transfer a patch of federal land beneath it into private hands.
The lower court had barred the land transfer as insufficient to eliminate concern about a religious symbol on public land — in this case, the Mojave National Preserve.
Well, maybe the lower will now do what is right and transfer the land into private hands.
In fact, the land on which it sits doesn’t even belong to the federal government anymore. Congress transferred it to the VFW years ago precisely in order to avoid a church-and-state challenge. The risk that anyone’s going to stumble upon it and feel the heavy hand of government nudging them towards Christ is, in other words, remote. And yet this court battle has been raging for fully nine years, ending this morning in a 5-4 decision at the tippy top of the judicial food chain featuring six different written opinions.
Atta baby! Woot, Woot! Take that Michael Newdow and other liberal bottom-suckers who congregate around the wrong end of Satan's pitchfork! This nation will stand for its Christian principles whether you like it or not!
Atta baby! Woot, Woot! Take that Michael Newdow and other liberal bottom-suckers who congregate around the wrong end of Satan's pitchfork! This nation will stand for its Christian principles whether you like it or not!
Atta baby! Woot, Woot! Take that Michael Newdow and other liberal bottom-suckers who congregate around the wrong end of Satan's pitchfork! This nation will stand for its Christian principles whether you like it or not!
And the anti-American organization known as the ACLU.
Depressing. Not the outcome of the decision but that four supposedly intelligent people would view this case as a threat to our liberties.
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Mohave Cross Can STAY; 5-4 SCOTUS Decision
