Againsheila
Gold Member
Federal appeals court says highways' crosses are unconstitutional - CNN.com
fucking ridiculous. a complete waste of our judicial system's time. I hope the family of the troopers killed sues if/when the crosses are actually removed.
If the crosses were on private land, this would be a non-issue. As it stands, I doubt any counter lawsuit would gain any traction.
I respect the desire to honor fallen state troopers, however it is a little ignorant to assume they were all Christians or even religious. Do we specifically know that these troopers would want a memorial to them to be an expression of religion? Why not choose a badge?
Look at it another way: have you ever seen the cemeteries of the fallen American Soldiers on Normandy Beach?
Did anyone ever insist that a Jewish soldier had to be buried under a cross headstone? Would you want to be buried under a Star of David (assuming you are a Christian)?
Instead of counter-suing (which is a loser case), a rational solution is for someone to donate private land along the highway and move the memorial.
Instead of going into histrionics over the matter, why not start a fund and organization to buy the land and do such a thing?
Private land is no guarantee they won't go after it. My brother's cross was on private
land, with permission of the owners and they ripped it apart, broke his picture frame, ripped up his picture and trashed the place.....the hatred of Christianity knows no bounds...
They've even taken out the crosses at the veteran's cemetery where my Dad was buried and put in headstones instead, which cost a whole lot more money, btw.
I believe putting crosses over graves to be about as religious as a Christmas tree, but, there ya go...