High Court to Rule on Cross

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether its constitutional to have an eight foot cross, a memorial to fallen US soldiers, sitting on federal land in California. The cross is located in the Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County. The Veterans of Foreign Wars placed a smaller wooden cross there in 1934 and the larger cross was added later. When a group wanted to add a Buddhist shrine along side the cross, they were turned down. That’s when the ACLU sued to get the cross removed. A federal appeals court sided with the ACLU, preventing Congress from transferring ownership of the land to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. This past fall the Bush administration appealed to the Supreme Court.