The Supreme Court suggests a 40-foot cross on public land in Maryland built to honor World War I soldiers does not violate the separation of church and state
Several of the justices pointed to the fact that the cross in question has stood for nearly a hundred years in a Maryland suburb, in a park close to other war memorials.Supreme Court to decide fate of WWI memorial cross in church and state disputeJustice Elena Kagan noted that after World War I, crosses"became, in people's minds, the preeminent symbol of how to memorialize World War I dead.
They lost when a district court upheld the cross. But in 2017, a panel of judges on the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to reverse the decision, saying that the government had"excessively entangled itself with religion."In court, Monica L. Miller, a lawyer for the American Humanist Society representing the men, argued the memorial should either be moved to private property or modified.
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