Posted: Apr 13, 2012 12:42 am
http://blog.militaryatheists.org/2011/1 ... hristians/
(The site above contains links that should be viewed - mandatory unit prayers making it quite clear that those saying this isn't an officially endorsed religious site are lying.)Some point out that whole units have been marched up to the cross by their commanders. Two videos show a long hike to install the cross and one unit commander inviting his Sergeant Major to give a Christian prayer to a mandatory formation under this cross. Marine commanders have forced their troops into a pilgrimage to a Christian cross?!? This deserves a separate investigation by itself.
Jay Sekulow at the Christian ACLJ says the cross isn’t Christian. A billion Christians worship the cross as a symbol of their most deeply-held beliefs, so I’ll let them object to the ACLJ. Dave Niose in Psychology Today questions the casting of the cross as a secular icon. Attorney Randall Hamud San Diego more accurately lays out the legal challenges to the federal installation of a religious symbol. If this was solely about honoring fallen brothers, why confuse the message with an obvious and unmistakable religious symbol?
The example of cemetery crosses is also often brought up. These cases are entirely different as they represent the wishes of the individual buried in that plot. MAAF absolutely supports religious emblems on federal cemetery grave markers.