By Mark Rhoads –
In a victory for common sense, The U.S. District Court in Maryland ruled on December 3 that a war memorial in the shape of a cross erected by the American Legion on public land 90 years ago is constitutional.
The court rejected an argument by a group of secular humanists that claimed the mere existence of a cross on public land violated the establishment of religion prohibition in the First Amendment.
For many years atheists and others have tried to claim that merely recognizing the existence of God or Christianity in general is the same thing as the King of England endorsing only one particular denomination over others in 1789. Their arguments are ludicrous given the context of history but this decision only said the primary purpose of the cross was not a religious one which could be seen as a distinction without a practical difference. In any case, the cross stays.
