Horror: 75 Year Old WWI Memorial is in the Shape of a Cross


Seventy-five years ago some WWI vets set up a memorial to their fallen comrades in the Mojave Desert. The memorial was a simple eight foot white cross set on a small hill in the middle of no where. It has out lasted the men who set it up, but it is uncertain whether it will outlast political correctness and the idiots who seek to destroy the marker because it stands on government own lands. On Wednesday the US Supreme Court heard argument on whether the cross should be removed.

The cross was so offensive that a lower court judge ordered that it be covered up.

Seventy-five years ago a cross would have been seen as a common symbol for memorializing the dead. I doubt that any of the men who set it up would have thought that it excluded anyone who was not Christian, but rather saw it as covering everyone who died serving their country. Of course the ACLU thinks differently leading to this exchange between the ACLU attorney and Justice Scalia:

"I have been in Jewish cemeteries," Eliasberg continued. "There is never a cross on a tombstone of a Jew."

There was mild laughter in the packed courtroom, but not from Scalia.

"I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion," Scalia said, clearly irritated by the exchange. Star Tribune

The position of the ACLU is ridiculous and it would have been insulting to the men who drafted the US Constitution, but political correctness and the judicial activism of leftist judges could lead to this memorial and many others being torn down. (I wonder what the war dead would think of such an action?) Hopefully, there is some common sense left in the US Supreme Court and it will reject the ACLU case. It is likely that it will be a split decision with several of the justices thinking that it is proper to insult the rest of country, spit on the war dead, and destroy the country's history because some leftist halfwit imagines an insult by exclusion 75 years after the fact.

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