Over the weekend, hundreds of supporters of the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross, many of them veterans, rallied against the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision declaring the 43-foot cross unconstitutional. While that debate continues and could conceivably find its way to the Supreme Court, the Soledad memorial isn't the only California cross saluting veterans that is currently being hotly contested in and out of court.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Barstow has filed a lawsuit against the the Obama administration to get a 77-year-old war memorial (in the shape of a cross) in California's Mojave National Preserve.
According the Desert Dispatch, a lawsuit filed last week by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Barstow post against the federal government is the latest development in long battle over whether the cross should be permitted to stand on public land in the Mojave National Preserve.
According to the Press-Enterprise, it calls for government enforcement of a Congressionally approved land transfer designed to situate the seven-foot cross on private land, thereby resolving arguments made by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others that the cross violates the constitutional provision barring the government from endorsing any religion.
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