Angered by a judge’s order to remove the giant Mount Soledad cross in San Diego, a California state lawmaker is introducing a bill to protect symbols of American heritage that have a religious aspect.
The Defense of Veterans Memorials Act would be the first state legislation of its kind, mirroring the federal Public Expression of Religion Act, introduced in the House last year, which would remove from judges the authority to award attorney fees, or damages to groups such as the ACLU.
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But the ACLU isn’t in it for the money, they just want to make sure that the godless don’t ever get reminded about God.
So what? The ability to levy fines is one way to coerce compliance with a court order. Taking that tool away is a good step.
You know, in looking at buildings in Washington D.C. and other capital cities, it occurred to me that if people were persistent enough, the taxpayers would spend a lot of money on removing phrases about God (in English and Latin) and various religious imagery from public places. But I never thought I’d see the day that a cemetery or memorial would have to change so that people wouldn’t see its religious symbols.
And the Ninth Circuit will throw it all out…
As a San Diegan, all I can say is that this whole Soledad Cross thing has been absolute insanity. It’s one or two nutbags who have driven our entire county to remove the cross.
So why aren’t people doing the treehugging thing and tying themselves to the cross to save it, or throwing themselves in front of bulldozers or whatever?
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the veterans, surely.