Later this month, the Supreme Court will decide whether a Maryland parks commission violates the Constitution by administering a World War I monument which takes the shape of a Latin cross.
Three Maryland residents and the American Humanist Association wish to see the memorial, the Peace Cross, removed. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, over a dissent that warned of the removal of crosses from Arlington National Cemetery, which falls within the 4th Circuit’s jurisdiction. That is troubling enough; but the argument the state parks commission makes in defence of the cross is more troubling still.
