Saturday 23 July 2011

Agnosticism / Atheism: Mt. Soledad Cross, War Memorial v. Church/State Separation

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Mt. Soledad Cross, War Memorial v. Church/State Separation
Jul 23rd 2011, 15:00

Located on top of Mt. Soledad in San Diego, California, is a 29-foot-tall concrete cross sitting on a 14-foot-tall platform. It was erected in 1955 to replace an older wooden cross. It was originally designed as a Christian Easter memorial cross. In 1989, after it was challenged as a violation of the separation of church and state, a Korean veterans' war memorial was added to the site in order to create a secular context as an excuse to have the cross remain.

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