The March 3 Metro article “Court upholds ruling against cross memorial” referred to a “cross-shaped monument.” It’s a cross. A 40-foot-tall cross. “Cross-shaped monument” suggests that there is some dispute over this or that this massive cross is only incidentally a Christian cross. While there is some dispute over its history and legality, there is no dispute that it is, and was intended to be, an enormous Christian cross.
The rest of the article showed a similar and unseemly bent toward the side of the violators of the Constitution. For instance, it said “the Supreme Court ... has not provided clear guidance about displays of religion on government land.” In reality, no court, including the Supreme Court, has ever upheld a cross on public land. Never. We made this point in our amicus brief, as did the court a few times. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who was quoted, was wrong when he called the court’s decision “an affront to all veterans.” The cross is the affront. There are atheists in foxholes. And Jews and Hindus and Muslims and nonbelievers and non-Christians of every stripe. We owe them better. Their sacrifice helped secure our freedom just as much as the sacrifice of our Christian servicemen and women. The court got this right.
Andrew Seidel, Madison, Wis.
The writer is a constitutional lawyer with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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