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It will vanish and shrink.\u00a0 I needn\u2019t argue about that, history will prove me right.<\/em>
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The 9th circuit court of appeals has, shockingly, reversed a lower court ruling and concluded that a cross at the San Diego war memorial is unconstitutional.<\/a>\u00a0 There is no\u00a0apparent order about what has to happen to the cross.\u00a0 But it can no longer stand as is.\u00a0 The case was brought by Jewish war veterans who were offended by the presence of a cross back in the 80s.<\/p>\n

Is this a huge defeat?\u00a0 A massive assault on Christian faith?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a legal scholar.\u00a0 My understanding of the finer points of law is right up there with my ability to build a space shuttle in my garage.\u00a0 Like many things, I weigh such decisions in light of other goings on.\u00a0 If we continue to see an openness and willingness for our public institutions to embrace or promote things like Islam or Judaism or Eastern Religious thought or atheist belief systems, while continuing to eradicate only Christianity and Christian symbols from the public sphere, then yeah, that\u2019s a problem.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But for this, it\u2019s hard to say.\u00a0 I feel bad for those veterans who liked the memorial as it is.\u00a0 But we\u2019ve found out already in our society that being offended is a matter of privilege.\u00a0 Some folks can, using the current legal and social strains of thought, scream offense and move mountains.\u00a0 Others can say the same things about what offends them and garner nary a yawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"