Posted: Apr 13, 2012 12:44 am
by orpheus
willhud9 wrote:
orpheus wrote:
willhud9 wrote:Or if their function is not religious, but rather memorial. :dunno:


Ok, a nice huge bronze cross affixed to the wall above a judge's bench in a state courthouse - funded by private citizens and intended as a memorial.


A memorial for what? Judges who have died? The point is the crosses here WERE erected as a memorial in an outlying part of the base. A memorial for friends and family on that base who have died in the war on terror. Unless the memorial is illegal which than my argument is moot. But if it's not, then I see no reason why a cross changes the memorial. There are crosses used on memorials across graveyards across the country.


Plenty of people could be "legitimately" memorialized by such a hypothetical cross. If the courthouse is in downtown Manhattan (as most of the NYC government buildings are), then even more, because of 9/11.

The point remains: what's the difference?