What does a radical atheist do when he loses in court? He takes the law into his own hands of course.
So much for the rule of law.
Now comes a report the WWI Veterans' Memorial Cross in the Mojave Desert has been stolen.
Although it is unclear who stole the Cross, we can be confident it wasn't Tea Party people, Boy Scouts, VFW members or bomb throwing Baptists.
Welcome to another edition of "The New Inquisition," Christian persecution and assault American style.
Many of you will recall about two weeks ago the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Cross could remain where it has been for 76 years about 70 miles south of Las Vegas. The Cross was placed by American military veterans in 1934 to honor those who lost their lives in WWI.
The Mojave National Preserve was established in 1994, sixty years after the Cross was placed there.
In 2009 a suit was filed calling for the removal of the Cross.
The case arose when Frank Buono, a former assistant superintendent of the preserve, filed a lawsuit demanding that the National Park Service, which administers the preserve, remove the cross. Buono argued that because the cross is on government land it amounts to a government endorsement of religion and thus violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Furthermore, according to the ADF, the ACLU and Buono employed the use of false claims to argue their case:
In 2001, the ACLU sued the National Park Service on behalf of retired Mojave Preserve Assistant Superintendent Frank Buono, who falsely claimed that NPS denied a Buddhist colleague’s application to install a Buddhist symbol near the memorial. Both the colleague and the story turned out to be fictitious, but Buono, who fabricated the story, himself claimed to be offended by the cross and continued the lawsuit.
On April 28, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled the Cross could stay.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a cross-shaped veterans’ memorial currently covered up by a box in California’s Mojave Desert can stay right where it is. In a 5–4 decision, the court determined that an act of Congress transferring the land under the memorial to a veterans’ group was constitutional and additionally noted that “the Constitution does not oblige government to avoid any public acknowledgment of religion’s role in society.”
Now, thieves have stolen the Cross by cutting the bolts securing it to rock. A $25,000 reward has been posted.
Notice how Christians are forced to tolerate everything under the sun, but more and more, Christians are intolerable to an increasingly militant secular society.
Welcome to the New Inquisition.
Poster Comment:
It needs to be replaced by a concrete one, three times the size and illuminated at night.