{"id":33180,"date":"2015-07-21T00:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T03:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33180"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:54:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:54:53","slug":"mount-soledad-cross-sold-to-private-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/21\/mount-soledad-cross-sold-to-private-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Soledad Cross Sold to Private Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/soledad3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"419\" \/>The Mount Soledad cross, a war memorial atop a hill near San Diego, has finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10news.com\/news\/dept-of-defense-sells-mount-soledad-veterans-memorial-property-to-mt-soledad-memorial-association\">been sold to a private group<\/a> in a move that should end the decades-long court battle over its legality.\u00a0 The Mount Soledad Memorial Association, which is the same group that has maintained the cross for decades,\u00a0paid $1.4M for the property.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cross had been <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/12\/17\/mount-soledad-memorial-cross-ruled-unconstitutional-again\/\">ruled unconstitutional<\/a> several times\u00a0in a long-running judicial history\u00a0that momentarily included an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2012\/06\/29\/supreme-court-denies-review-of-mount-soledad-cross-case\/\">appearance at the Supreme Court<\/a>.\u00a0 The authority to transfer the property was granted in <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2014\/12\/23\/president-signs-2015-ndaa-mt-soledad-addressed-no-religious-liberty-provisions\/\">last year&#8217;s NDAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/sale-of-mt-soledad-memorial-site-to.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Soledad cross, a war memorial atop a hill near San Diego, has finally been sold to a private group in a move that should end the decades-long court battle over its legality.\u00a0 The Mount Soledad Memorial Association, which is the same group that has maintained the cross for decades,\u00a0paid $1.4M for the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2,460,17,10,171,457],"class_list":["post-33180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-military","tag-mount-soledad","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}