I have been following the Soledad cross issue for about 2 years.The legal back and forth has been interesting BUT there is a possible deeper history to this issue than what has been presented by the media (go figure).
Some comments have referred to the history of La Jolla (where the monument is located) and the original "intention" of the monument. If the comments are accurate, it's a hot-button issue that is not being addressed and makes me wonder why. It goes way beyond "just" a SOCAS issue.
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The legal wrangling follows a ruling by a U.S. district judge in December that ordered the cross be taken down from the memorial. But the judge stayed his ruling while the case was appealed.
In the petition filed this week, lawyers for the Obama administration warned if the district court reinstated the order that the cross be removed, they would take the issue to the highest court in the nation.
The cross was erected in 1954 in honor of Korean War veterans and has been the subject of near constant judicial back-and-forth since 1989, when two Vietnam War veterans filed suit saying it violated the California Constitution's "No Preference" clause.
Since that first lawsuit, the city of San Diego twice tried selling the property beneath the cross to the Mount Soledad Memorial Association, only to be stopped by the courts.
In 2004, the parties involved reached an agreement that would have moved the cross to a nearby church, but two congressmen intervened and inserted a rider into the 2005 omnibus budget bill that designated the property a national veterans' memorial and authorized the federal government to accept the donation of the property.
This led to more fights and more court filings.
Obama attorneys: Cross atop California war memorial is 'appropriate' - CNN.com
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