The Old Secular Cross? High Court to Consider Issue of Church-State Separation
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. -- It would be easy to miss among the yucca and Joshua trees of this vast place -- a small plywood box, set back from a gentle curve in a lonesome desert road. It looks like nothing so much as a miniature billboard without a message.
But inside the box is a 6 1/2 -foot white cross, built to honor the war dead of World War I. And because its perch on a prominent outcropping of rock is on federal land, it has been judged to be an unconstitutional display of government favoritism of one religion over another.
But wait... what's this?
That looks like on of our esteemed congressman from North Carolina (Walter Jones) visiting a FEDERAL cemetary, where many of our military heroes of the past and present are buried. This isn't an attack on Jones, for the record. I just noticed the image on his federal government website. Which raises another question:
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT CROSS DOING THERE? QUICK! SOMEONE GET THE ACLU ON THE PHONE!!!!! MY RIGHTS ARE BEING TRAMPLED!!!!!!!!
We gotta stop the scourge of religious oppression that is occuring at Arlington National Cemetary, for if we don't, we will all be subject to a restrictive THEOCRACY! OH NOOOOOOOOOEEESSSS!!!!!!
Ahem. Anyway. Good morning, everyone. I hate hippies. That is all.
