Cross in seal of US county ‘plainly constitutional,’ rules appeals court
RNS A federal appeals court in the US has ruled in favor of a Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, seal that contains a cross, citing a recent Supreme Court decision. The unanimous ruling by the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, issued Thursday, overturns a lower court decision that found the seal violated the establishment clause of […]
In the US, Veteran Affair’s revised policies on symbols, displays aim to protect ‘religious liberty’
RNS In the wake of a Supreme Court decision permitting a cross to remain on a public highway, the Department of Veterans Affairs has revised its policies on religious symbols in displays at VA facilities. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie announced on 3rd July that the new policies will reduce inconsistencies among VA facilities. A Catholic […]
Essay: The US Supreme Court made the Bladensburg Cross a special case. Let’s keep it that way
In an article first published on Religion News Service, AMANDA TYLER, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, comments on last week’s decision concerning a war memorial known as the Bladensburg Cross…
US Supreme Court determines cross on Maryland highway can stay
Washington, DC RNS The large historic cross that sits in a Maryland traffic circle is constitutional, the Supreme Court has ruled. In a 7-2 decision, the high court determined Thursday that the World War I monument known as the Bladensburg Cross, erected by the American Legion in 1925, does not violate the Constitution’s establishment clause. […]
US top court sympathetic toward Maryland cross in major religion case
Reuters US Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled a willingness to let a 12 metre tall cross-shaped war memorial stay on public land in Maryland despite a legal challenge that called it an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. But during a lively 70 minute oral argument in the major case about the separation of church […]
RELIGION OR REMEMBRANCE?: SUPREME COURT MULL CROSS-SHAPED WAR MEMORIAL
ADELLE M BANKS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports from the US on the fight over a cross-shaped war memorial and its wider ramifications in the US…