Alumnus fighting to save cross at San Diego war memorial
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Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Alumnus fighting to save cross at San Diego war memorial
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A 29-foot cross at the center of a war memorial in San Diego, Calif., has
been the subject of repeated court cases since 1989. An atheist filed suit
against the city, claiming that the cross on public land violated the
California Constitution's provision on separation of church and state.
Citizens of San Diego will vote July 26 on whether or not the city will
donate the property to the federal government for use as a national war
memorial. Southwestern alumnus Chris Clark (MDiv 1986), pastor of East
Clairemont Baptist Church, is part of a group fighting to save the cross.
Photo courtesy of Chris Clark.
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by Gregory Tomlin
SAN DIEGO (BP) – Voters in San Diego, Calif., will decide July 26 whether
or not to adopt a proposition that will protect a cross at the center of a
memorial to America’s war veterans.
If approved under Proposition A, the city will donate to the federal
government all of the city’s rights, title and interests in the Mt. Soledad
Veterans Memorial property for use as a national war memorial. Supporters
of the proposition see the donation of the property to the government as
the only means of protecting the integrity of the memorial and the
religious meaning of the cross.
The 29-foot tall cross -- a part of the memorial on city land since 1954 --
has been the focus of multiple legal cases filed by the American Civil
Liberties Union. ACLU lawyer James McElroy has argued since 1989 that the
cross on public land violates the provision on separation of church and
state in the California Constitution. McElroy represents Philip Paulson, a
Vietnam War veteran and atheist.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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