International Business Times - Atheist Group Sues NYC, Bloomberg in Protest of WTC Memorial Cross

By IBTimes.com

American Atheists, a nonprofit group, has filed a lawsuit protesting the inclusion of the World Trade Center Cross in the 9/11 memorial and museum.

The lawsuit claims that the presence of the cross is unconstitutional because it violates the separation of church and state and because it excludes other religions and belief systems. . . .

The American Center for Law and Justice plans to file a friend-of-the-court brief defending the presence of the cross at the memorial.

"This is another pathetic attempt to rewrite the Constitution and rewrite history by removing a symbol that serves as a powerful remembrance to that fateful attack nearly 10 years ago," Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the ACLJ, said in a press release. "This lawsuit is deeply flawed and without merit. It is just the latest chapter of an anti-God strategy employed by atheist organizations across the country-a strategy offensive to millions of Americans, a strategy that we're confident will ultimately fail in court." . . .

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