A cross-shaped steel beam -- pulled from the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York days after the September 11, 2001 attacks -- can be displayed in the national memorial museum at the site, a U.S. appeals court ruled today (July 28, 2014), according to the Raw Story website.
An atheist group in 2011 sued the museum and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey seeking to block the display as unconstitutional, arguing that the cross was a religious symbol that had no place in a government-sponsored institution.
In 2013, U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts dismissed the lawsuit, and a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld her ruling in a unanimous decision today.
The cross quickly became a symbol to hundreds of people, some of whom attended religious services held in front of it. It now stands in the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, which opened to the public in May.
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