Utah:
The fight over a dozen white crosses memorializing fallen Utah State Troopers along Utah roadsides isn’t over.
State Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, vowed as much Thursday at a press conference with Tom McClusky of the Family Research Council, a national conservative Christian group.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would not review the case of the Utah Highway Patrol Association vs. American Atheists. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled in the contentious case that the 12-foot-high white crosses must be removed from public land and cannot bear the UHP insignia. In doing so, the court cited the First Amendment’s establishment clause and the separation between religion and government.
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This is a really stupid way to bring Atheism into the public sphere.
@Horace:
Your concern has been noted.
12-foot-high crosses? If I’m the family of one of the “memorialized” troopers, I’ve gotta wonder if this is really for me, or if there’s some other agenda at play here.
They should be Big Giant A’s instead of crosses. Because everyone is born an Atheist.
@Horseass #1
UHP is the one keeping this in the public sphere. At the least you should go direct your concern trolling toward them.
IF the idea is to memorialize troopers, why not a replica of their shield (in California it’s a distinctive seven-pointed star, don’t know from Utah.)
Of course, maybe they don’t feel that the memorial should have anything that directly to do with the one being memorialized…