Another Attack on the Christian Right

"Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christinas" Rep. John Hostettler (R. Ind)

That said, comes the latest niggling attack on Christian values, courtesy of our friends at the Stop the ACLU blog:

Attacking Jesus? Mt. Soledad Cross Unconstituional
by Jay on 10-07-05 @ 10:06 pm Filed under Uncategorized

“We need to attack Jesus…”
- atheist Philip Paulson, who filed a lawsuit challenging the presence of the cross on city land in 1989.

A California judge has ruled that San Diego’s Proposition A, a voter initiative to preserve the Mt. Soledad War Memorial by transferring the property to the National Parks Service, is “unconstitutional.”

The proposition, which was approved in July by over 75 percent of San Diego voters has now been invalidated by the opinion of one judge.

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Judge Patricia Cowett found Friday that maintenance of the cross is an “unconstitutional preference of religion.”

Cowett also said transferring ownership of the 43-foot cross and surrounding property to the federal government is an “unconstitutional aid to religion.”

“The court hereby finds the ordinance placing Proposition A on the ballot and Proposition A unconstitutional, and therefore invalid and unenforceable. Maintenance of this Latin Cross as it is on the property in question, is found to be an unconstitutional preference of religion in violation of Artical I, Section 4, of the California Constitution, and the transfer of the memorial with the cross as its centerpiece to the federal government to save the cross as it is, where it is, is an unconstitutional aid to religion in violation of Artical XVI, Section 5, of the California Constitution.” read the entire ruling.

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San Diegans for the Mt. Soledad National War Memorial, sponsors of Proposition A, offer swift reaction to the ruling. Soledad National Chairman Phil Thalheimer was appalled by the decision:

“We completely disagree with Judge Cowett’s ruling. Like so many of our most treasured national monuments that employ faith emblems, Mount Soledad is a secular memorial dedicated to those who sacrificed in the cause of freedom.

This ruling is a slap in the face to both veterans and voters-seventy-five percent of whom voted to keep Mount Soledad as it is, where it is. This smacks of the worst kind of judicial activism. Judge Cowett already attempted to undermine the preservation of this sacred symbol by forcing a minimum 2/3 supermajority for passage just a few days before the July 26 election.

As we predicted, the people rose to the occasion and overwhelmingly approved Proposition A. Now, Judge Cowett wants to change the rules after the game has already been played. It is this very kind of radical activism from the bench that risks turning democracies into dictatorships.”

Jay eventually asks: "When did our nation come under the power of judges?"

Jay, it happened when likes of the ACLU, ACT-Up, George Soros and every "Friend of Bill" moved to place the likes of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens and David Souter on the bench.

He also asks: "The people spoke, and the people were overruled. Is that really a democracy? Is this what our founding fathers intended. Is this truly the land of the free?"

Not when you have the might of the ACLU beating down every bastion of the society that our founding fathers created and that keeps the very moral fabric of this country together.