Judge rules Mt. Soledad cross constitutional - ‘The primary effect is patriotic and nationalistic, not religious’

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A judge has concluded that a cross located at the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial near San Diego is constitutional and can remain where it is on federal property, but the 20-year-old battle over the symbol – one of thousands at the memorial – apparently still is not over.

“When the cross is considered in the context of the larger memorial and especially the numerous other secular elements, the primary effect is patriotic and nationalistic, not religious,” wrote U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns.

“The Court finds the memorial at Mt. Soledad, including its Latin cross, communicates the primarily non-religious messages of military service, death and sacrifice,” he said.

“This is a wonderful victory, not only for the families of Majors (Michael D.) Martino and (Gerald) Bloomfield (III) who can have some comfort knowing that the memories of their loves ones are preserved under the cross, but for all Americans who care about our young men and women who have sacrificed their lives in defense of our country,” said Richard Thompson, chief of the Thomas More Law Center, one of several law firms whose members have been active in the case over the years…

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