WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) released a statement applauding the Supreme Court of the United States for defending religious liberty after the court voted, 7-2, that a government-maintained Christian cross in the Maryland suburbs does not violate the Constitution.
The 40-foot Peace Cross designed by mothers of fallen soldiers in Bladensburg was erected nearly a century ago as a memorial to soldiers lost in World War I.
Only the court’s two most stalwart liberals, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, dissented.
“The American tradition was and is formed by a tradition of faith. It would be a grave error to write that out of our history,” said Rep. Mark Green. “The culture of political correctness goes too far when it launches attacks on memorials to soldiers who laid down their life in service to their country and to God. The Supreme Court made the right decision.”
Justice Alito wrote that the Bladensburg Cross “has become a prominent community landmark, and its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of ‘a hostility toward religion that has no place in our Establishment Clause traditions.’”
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