The World Net Daily website reports today (January 6, 2011) that a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided a memorial cross on federal land on Mt. Soledad, California violates the U.S. Constitution.
In a 3-0 ruling in the Jewish War Veterans v. City of San Diego case, the panel decided that the 29-foot concrete cross -- which has stood for 57 years -- constitutes a government endorsement of religion and therefore violates the First Amendment's establishment clause.
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, said, "This flawed decision not only strikes at the heart of honoring our military veterans, it reaches a faulty conclusion that this iconic memorial -- part of the historic landscape of San Diego -- is unconstitutional."
Sekulow added, "We look forward to the case going to the Supreme Court where we're confident this decision will be overturned."
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