Military.com - Congressman Intercedes on Behalf of Pendleton Cross

By Bryant Jordan, Military.com

California Rep. Duncan Hunter has waded into the battle over the so-called Camp Pendleton cross -- put up by leathernecks in honor of four buddies killed in Iraq -- by asking the commander of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to let the cross stay....

The American Center for Law Justice and the Thomas More Law Center say the cross should remain in place.

"The Constitution does not prohibit honoring fallen troops through the use of a historic symbol merely because that symbol also carries religious significance," wrote Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the ACLJ. "In fact, the Constitution forbids excluding religion from every aspect of public life, precisely the goal of the MAAF and other atheist groups."...

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