US Government to Defend Mount Soledad Cross
The Department of Justice has said it will “strongly” defend the Mount Soledad cross (as it has said before), the subject of a continuous legal battle for more than 25 years. The cross was ruled unconstitutional again in December 2013.
Obama administration lawyers have told the Supreme Court they will strongly defend the 29-foot-tall cross atop Mount Soledad in San Diego as a memorial to the nation’s war veterans and not an unconstitutional promotion of Christianity by the government…
The cross was aloft more 35 years before a 1989 lawsuit claimed Read more