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Rees Lloyd: American Legion fight to preserve memorial began in Banning

By ADF Alliance Alert

Record Gazette: "What is at stake in the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Cross case, and the companion Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial Cross case (now pending in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal and is certain to go to the U.S. Supreme Court), is whether 300 million Americans will continue to have the right to choose how they will honor their war dead and other veterans, including by use of the cross or other symbols with a religious aspect; or whether the ACLU or single individuals who claim they are 'offended' by the sight of a cross at a veterans memorial will have a veto power over those decisions. Thus, the decision is a great victory for veterans and for Americans? freedom of choice. Had the court ruled otherwise, there would be a tsunami of Establishment Clause attacks on veterans memorials by the ACLU and others." "Rees Lloyd is an attorney and past commander of Banning Post 428 and District 21. He also is director of the Defense of Veterans Memorials Project of the American Legion Department of California and ADF."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 28, 2010 (boomark / email).