UPI News - Appeals Court Finds Cross Unconstitutional

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The cross is a Christian religious symbol, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, finding that a San Diego war memorial does not pass constitutional muster. . . .

. . . . The litigation has pitted the American Civil Liberties Union, the Jewish War Veterans and other groups against the American Center for Law and Justice, which is representing 25 members of Congress in the case. The center argued that plaques put up to honor individual veterans, not all of them Christian, converted the cross from a Christian symbol to a war memorial.

The center, in a statement, said the panel dealt "a judicial slap in the face to the countless military veterans honored by this memorial."

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