Victory: SUPREME COURT RULES 7-2 , BLADENSBURG CROSS MONUMENT CAN STAY
The Associated Press reports:
"A World War I memorial in the shape of a 40-foot-tall cross can continue to stand on public land in Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The justices, in ruling 7-2 in favor of the cross' backers, concluded that the nearly 100-year-old memorial's presence on a grassy highway median doesn't violate the First Amendment's establishment clause, which prohibits the government from favoring one religion over others.
The case had been closely watched because it involves the place of religious symbolsin public life. Defenders of the cross in Bladensburg had argued that a ruling against them could doom of hundreds of war memorials that use crosses to commemorate soldiers who died."
A copy of the Supreme Court Decision in the form of a Syllabus is posted here:
Supreme Court Decision - Syllabus