SAN DIEGO (AP) - The 43-foot cross anchored on public parkland atop Mount
Soledad in San Diego will be moved after voters rejected a ballot measure
to sell the land to the highest bidder, attorneys said.
Attorneys for the city are scheduled to meet with private attorneys next
week to negotiate a plan to move the cross - more than 10 years after a
federal judge ruled its presence on city land violated the state
constitution, according to Jim McElroy, an attorney representing an
atheist who sued over the presence of the cross in 1989.
A plan to move the cross could be established within 60 days, McElroy
said; however, physically moving the cross could take longer and would
require permitting and public hearings.
The city sold the land where the cross is located in 1998 to the Mount
Soledad Memorial Association, which was the highest bidder. The 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals later ruled the sale favored a buyer who would
keep the cross on the site.
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Enkidu
"Yee-Ha" is not a foreign policy.
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