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New Victory in San Diego Soledad Cross Case |
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
The U.S. Senate voted to approve a plan to protect the cross atop Mount Soledad yesterday. The bill has already been approved by the House of Representatives, so it it now slated to go to President Bush, who has said he will sign the bill into law. The Senate vote was unanimous.
The land beneath the cross will then pass to Federal ownership, thus saving the cross from destruction by those who are seeking to re-interpret the U.S. Constitution to eliminate religion, particularly Christianity, from public life.
The passage of the bill by Congress was a clear message to atheists like Philip Paulson, who sued the city over two decades ago over the presence of the cross, and organizations like Americans United for Separation of Church and State who are attempting to undermine the foundation of American life through court action.
Lawyer for Paulson, James McElroy, was reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune as saying, "it's still unconstitutional," even though the Congress of the United States believes he is wrong. Even tireless liberals like California Senators Barbara Boxer Dianne Feinstein voted in favor of the measure.
Feinstein said, "The Mount Soledad cross has has been a great source of hope and inspiration for decades, and it has great historical significance to veterans and San Diegans alike," according to the Union-Tribune.
McElroy tacitly acknowledged that the current wave of anti-Christian bigotry is of fairly recent origin, going back only back only about 50 years.
He told the Union-Tribune that he thought the U.S Supreme Court would eventually overturn yesterday's Congressional action because he did not "think the [U.S.] Supreme Court is going to rewrite the Constitution or the last 50 years of precedent."
This is a major point of contention; many think that anti-religious precedents over the last 50 years are contrary to the original meaning of the Constitution, and are allowing people to undermine American culture with a secularism as strident as any Taliban belief.
The cross is safe for now. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court will make a decision that will either protect or deny freedom of religion in America.
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