Micky G. Jagger
Member
- Feb 17, 2009
- 656
- 31
- 16
Should all white crosses be removed from Arlington and all federal cemeteries? Since the US is looking at a stricter interpretation of the constitution regarding separation of church and state are the crosses violating this clause? Would a Muslim soldier buried there have a cross? A Jewish soldier?
Where does the Constitution grant the U. S. Government power to provide cemeteries?
Fortunately every law does not have to be spelled out in the Constitution.
"On July 17 of that year, Congress enacted legislation that authorized the President to purchase "cemetery grounds" to be used as national cemeteries "for soldiers who shall have died in the service of the country." Fourteen cemeteries were established that first year, including one in the sleepy Maryland town of Sharpsburg where 4,476 Union soldiers were laid to rest after the one day of terrible slaughter that was the Battle of Antietam. (By way of comparison, approximately 3,000 Americans, British and Canadians died on June 6, 1944, in the invasion of Normandy)."
General History - Burial & Memorials
Why aren't all of you constitutionalists demanding that Arlington Cemetery be turned over to the private sector?