Culture World War 1 Memorial to be torn down because shaped like a Cross

https://americanmilitarynews.com/20...own-due-to-religious-message-court-rules/amp/

A 40-foot memorial dubbed the “Peace Cross,” erected in 1925 in honor of 49 men who lost their lives during World War I, must now be torn down, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

The memorial, in Bladensburg, Maryland, was created by the American Legion and is shaped like a cross.

“Today’s decision sets dangerous precedent by completely ignoring history, and it threatens removal and destruction of veterans memorials across America,” First Liberty Institute attorney Hiram Sasser said, according to Fox News.

“This memorial has stood in honor of local veterans for almost 100 years and is lawful under the First Amendment. To remove it would be a tremendous dishonor to the local men who gave their lives during The Great War,” Jones Day attorney Michael Carvin said. First Liberty Institute and the Jones Day law firm are representing the American Legion in this legal battle.

In 2014, the American Humanist Association filed a lawsuit contending that the cross-shaped memorial is unconstitutional.

The group’s foundation believes in “being good without a god.” In their lawsuit, they asked for the memorial to be demolished, altered or removed.

The association claimed the memorial sends “an inherently religious message and creates the unmistakable appearance of honoring only Christian servicemen,” Fox reported.

The Fourth Circuit agreed, stating that the memorial tangles the government and religion because the cross is the “core symbol of Christianity” and “breaches” the wall separating church and state.

The American Legion could appeal directly to the Supreme Court.

 

[Super Collie]

Five bucks says the people rallying to have this monument torn down are too chicken shit to enlist in the armed forces themselves.

 

[Plague Spectrum]

Five bucks says the people rallying to have this monument torn down are too chicken shit to enlist in the armed forces themselves.

I bet they never paid attention to a history lesson in their life either. WW1 was pretty serious shit.

 

[Duke Nukem]

So what's the story on this? Is it paid for with public funds and on public property? In my town there was an argument about some Ten Commandments monument and where to put it. Some people in America trying to place them in front of public courthouses were told off, and moved them to private property. Which is OK in my book.

Five bucks says the people rallying to have this monument torn down are too chicken shit to enlist in the armed forces themselves.

No sense of irony in tearing down statues and monuments when fascist and communist regimes did the exact same thing in the name of ideology.

 

[The Lizard Queen]

It's really less a cross and more indicative of a monumental tomb stone. That's just how those headstones looked back then.

 

[The Great Chandler]

What are the chances of them being fedoras on the spectrum?

 

[Male Idiot]

I for one say good riddance! They were the soldiers of the evil side who oppressed us poor huns!

 

[Ravenor]

This is disgusting., WW1 was a Horror show and the Memorials are to the dead people who gave up their chance of ever having a voice so you can have a voice today.

I hope that there is a way of appealing this travesty of a decision because if this goes forward it sets forth a dangerous precedent to allow for more memorials to be taken down because people don't like them for not very good reasons.

 

[Munchingonfish]

What are the chances of them being fedoras on the spectrum?

Did you read the article?

In 2014, the American Humanist Association filed a lawsuit contending that the cross-shaped memorial is unconstitutional.

There's no doubt about them being euphoric atheists.

 

[cypocryphy]

Just make it a crescent moon and star and they'll be too afraid to say anything.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

They complain about people discriminating against atheists and agnostics and other non-religious people, but then they demand war memorials be torn down because it hurts their feelings. Can't imagine why anyone might not like these people.

 

[Male Idiot]

They complain about people discriminating against atheists and agnostics and other non-religious people, but then they demand war memorials be torn down because it hurts their feelings. Can't imagine why anyone might not like these people.

They do not need to be liked because they are enlightened by their own superior intelligence.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

What are the chances of them being fedoras on the spectrum?

"Humanists" are basically just if Reddit Atheists had a baby with intrusive moral guardians. Their motto is "good without a god" which is fedora as fuck.

 

[Ruin]

It should be legal to hunt euphoric atheists for sport. There's literally nothing positive or redeeming about them at all.

 

[Bassomatic]

WW1 was really the end of the world. I could sperg but I'll spare it.

I guess in a way I almost agree but I don't think the people who are doing this have any education in history and just are assholes.

I as many of us had family lost in that war and other wars. Even those who came back from that hell weren't the same.

To tip your fedora hard enough to spite these people is truly a rage creating move.

Remember when Christans say turn the other cheek. It doesn't mean be a door mat and one day they will find a cause to put the line in the sand.

Those are the same ones who remember that sell their cloak for a sword.

 

[Kermit the Frog]

(((secular humanism)))

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Anyone who complains about memorials is an exceptional faggot.

 

[Neil]

These fedora-tipping neckbeard pieces of shit really want to smite Christianity so much that they would go out of their way to disrespect a monument to veterans?

I'm not going to go into the usual rant about disrespecting veterans, but these fat, spineless fucks are the prime example of a generation that grew up spoiled, without having to face any real hardship.

So much for "not shoving your morals down others' throats", right?

I'm so sorry you had to face the displeasure of driving by a cross! Oh the torment! Oh the agony! People worship God! Stop the presses!

Stay back at r/atheism next time, you high-school dropout Wikipedia wannabe intellectuals.

 

[RG 448]

The group’s foundation believes in “being good without a god.”

Tearing down memorials is not a great start to that.

 

[Viridian]

Tearing down memorials is not a great start to that.

It's really not. It's not like the monument was actually religious in intent. It's not like a big rock with the 10 Commandments written on it or a painting of Jesus or anything. If you go to historic WWI graveyards, every grave is marked with a cross, that's just how it was. It was easy to make and a near-universal symbol for a burial site.

I'm not religious in the slightest but there really should have been some room for compromise on this. Like moving the memorial to private property so no one could use the church/state divide argument, and building another monument to honor the veterans--who absolutely still need to be honored--without anything anyone can point at as being religious symbolism. Or maybe simply adding more onto the monument, plaques stating that people of multiple faiths and no faiths all fought in WWI. Something, anything, would be better than just tearing that monument down and leaving rubble and anger behind.