The American Humanist Association is challenging the existence of a 40-foot cross on government-owned land, but the Trump administration hopes a newly conservative majority on the Supreme Court will agree to let it stand.
This case offers the opportunity for a newly constituted conservative court majority to draw a new, more religion-friendly line.
The American Legion and the Trump administration are urging the court to declare government support for religious symbols or religious programs constitutional unless a religious minority has been coerced to believe something that violates its principles. That would significantly broaden the standard used until now. But the Legion and the Trump administration contend that unless a government action tangibly harms a religious minority, it is constitutional.
Others, like Monica Miller, an attorney for the American Humanist Association, see its meaning as plain and obvious as the cross is large. "It's a giant 40-foot Latin cross," she said."There's no other meaning to the Latin cross other than Christianity." Still, the odds are the court will allow the cross to stand. The question is, in its decision expected by summer, what the court's opinion will say about how to judge the standard for religious symbols and programs in the future.
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