Christian Post - ACLJ: Veterans Cross Should Stay

By Jeff Schapiro, ChristianPost.com

The American Center for Law and Justice is speaking out in support of a veterans memorial cross by urging officials at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California to allow it to continue standing on the military base's land.

The cross was erected on top of a hill at the military base as a memorial to four Marines who died while serving the United States in Iraq, but the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers says religious symbols, whether they are memorials or not, are not legally permitted to stand on public land.

The ACLJ responded to MAAF's sentiments by sending a letter to Camp Pendleton's commanding officer, Col. Nicholas F. Marano, to explain why keeping the cross is not a violation of the Constitution's Establishment Clause. . . .

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