Religion Today - Conservative Law Firm Fights Atheists' Suit Over Cross at 9/11 Museum

By Steve Strunsky, ReligionToday.com

A lawsuit filed by the group American Atheists to keep a revered cross out of the National September 11 Museum is being challenged by the conservative American Center for Law and Justice, the Religion News Service reports. The ACLJ filed a friend-of-the-court brief August 20 on behalf of the suit's two defendants, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum Foundation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site.

The 9/11 museum isn't open yet, but the foundation plans to include the 17-foot cross -- actually two intersecting steel beams found on the site of the former World Trade Center -- among more than 1,000 objects, including fire trucks, an ambulance and the 37-foot "Last Column" left standing amid the wreckage. . .

Jay Sekulow of the ACLJ said, "The legal arguments of the atheist organization are both offensive and absurd," adding that 190,000 people had signed a petition opposing the lawsuit. . .

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