Supreme Court’s ‘Peace Cross’ case tackles debate on religious freedom, limits of public memorials


(Worthy News) – Bernice Snyder was spiritual, but she wasn’t what you’d call a religious woman, her grandson recalls. When she and other mothers sought a memorial to commemorate their sons who died on Europe’s battlefields in World War I, they settled on a Latin cross because it looked like the markers that sat on top of their sons’ graves.

Thus was born the Bladensburg Peace Cross, which today stands on public park land at the center of two major roads in the Maryland suburbs of Washington — and also stands at the center of a raging national controversy over the limits of public memorials, religious freedom, the separation of church and state — and who wins and loses in debates over tolerance.

On Wednesday, the case goes to the Supreme Court, where the justices hear oral arguments and, within a few months, will deliver a verdict on whether a cross is inherently an exclusionary Christian symbol and must be taken down. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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