Christian Post - Memorial Cross Receives Support from 17 U.S. Congressmen

by Ethan Cole, Christian Post Reporter

Seventeen members of Congress were listed in an amicus brief on Wednesday in support of a memorial cross in San Diego that was declared to violate the U.S. Constitution.

The amicus brief, a legal opinion from a party not directly involved in the case, was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to rehear a case in which a three-judge panel had declared Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial erected in 1954 to be unconstitutional.

This is an opportunity for the entire appeals court to correct a mistake made by a three-judge panel that wrongly determined that a long-standing monument honoring our nation's veterans is unconstitutional," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the ACLJ. "There's Supreme Court precedent underscoring the fact that this monument does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

He added, The Memorial evokes thoughts of the hundreds of thousands of individual crosses throughout the country and worldwide representing the lives and service of American veterans. It poses no constitutional crisis. . . .

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