Associated Press - Judges Rule Cross at Calif. Park Unconstitutional

SAN DIEGO (AP) A war memorial cross in a San Diego public park is unconstitutional because it conveys a message of government endorsement of religion, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a two decade old case.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the unanimous decision in the dispute over the 29-foot cross, which was dedicated in 1954 in honor of Korean War veterans.

The court said modifications could be made to make it constitutional, but it didn't specify what those changes would be. . . .

. . . . The American Center for Law and Justice, an evangelical Christian legal group which has fought to preserve the cross, called it "a judicial slap in the face" to military veterans . . . .

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