Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Utah Memorial Crosses Along Highway

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SALT LAKE CITY -- The 14 crosses erected along Utah roads to commemorate fallen state Highway Patrol troopers convey a state preference for Christianity and are a violation of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.

The ruling reverses a 2007 decision by a federal district judge that said the crosses communicate a secular message about deaths and were not a public endorsement of religion. It's the latest in a recent rash of mixed-bag rulings on the public use of crosses.
In 2006, the Utah Legislature passed a joint resolution declaring the cross a nonreligious secular symbol of death.

But American Atheists, Inc., the Texas-based group that sued to have the crosses removed from state property, argued that the crosses could imply that the trooper who died there was a Christian.

Justices agreed and said that while the cross is a widely recognized symbol of death, it is a specific Christian message.

"Unlike Christmas, which has been widely embraced as a secular holiday ... there is no evidence in this case that the cross has been widely embraced by non-Christians as a secular symbol of death," they said.

FOXNews.com - Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Utah Memorial Crosses Along Highway

It wasn't Jews or Muslims or Hindus making a stink. Just like with Christmas displays, it was the atheists.

Where's Pelosi? Maybe we should investigate this group. :cool:
 

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