Solely Christianity.Applying these principles, we conclude that the Bladensburg Cross does not violate the Establishment Clause.Interesting point…. You should have standing since you pay tax to support it, but especially if you have a child registered in the district.Anyone know if this group has filed any lawsuits about Muslim footbaths and prayer rooms being built in US public schools across the country?This one was so obvious that it got 7. There must be a cause, but it is so irrational that I surmise it must be that Satan himself is interacting with our flesh. despite that “shall not be infringed” thing.But it doesn’t play well with other cultures. And even if it did, this religious display does not involve the type of actual legal coercion that was a hallmark of historical establishments of religion. Why? But if it didn’t have the usual 5 with a solid opinion to show them the right thinking, who knows what Kagan and Breyer would have done?Sobran said it well: Christ makes people lose sleep in ways that others do not. It was paid for by county families and the American Legion; it had stood since 1925.on Paul Murray live ,all were upset that a wind farm is being considered at the site of our war dead in France.
Some love Him and some hate Him, but few are neutral.Ginsburg & the wise latina dissented. The truth is, the fault lies here. The cross was a physical thing and is distinguishable from an easily fungible concept such as a law. The vast majority of our honored dead were Christian of some variety or another, and in this country, a simple cross had become a classic grave marker.The reason you didn’t find any such lawsuits is simply because there are no such displays, so there’s nothing to sue over.The issue is that we’d start seeing crescents and minarets getting protected.I am relieved that SCOTUS used historical precedent and common sense to preserve the religious symbols of our country’s deceased military members.With sufficient time, religiously expressive monuments, symbols, and practices can become embedded features of a community’s landscape and identity. Const., Amdt. Anyone attempting to make such an argument in court is inviting a contempt charge.The image used in the Bladensburg memorial—a plain Latin cross6—also took on new meaning after World War I. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history…In his tribute to Lee in 1960, Eisenhower addressed what was at issue in 1860 that brought on the war.“We need to understand that at the time of the “War Between the States” the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Lee was a loyal Virginian. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.”“Meet you at Peace Cross.”Yet, what has changed in half a century? KAGAN, J., filed an opinion concurring in part. Or the amplification of the call to prayer?At the time the Constitution was enacted, we didn’t have any such aggressive religions here. I believe one ex-muslim has written a book or at the very least a magazine article claiming that.Here is an explainer about the case from The Federalist Society:I would leave the memorials of the dead as the mourners placed them. Footbaths are not religious, and are an accommodation to student’s private religious needs that is not only unanimously accepted as permitted, but may even be legally mandatory. Could it be that Christ really is who He says He is: Lord and God? It is a landmark. You may be mad, or sad, or glad, but no one goes away from Jesus Christ unchanged or merely “informed.” His words have an authority that demands a response.