Supreme Court to Hear 'Mojave Cross' Case

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the Mojave Cross, a war memorial that consists of a Christian cross in the middle of federal land. The Mojave Cross is another of those church and state separation cases that have proven so contentious. The Mojave Cross was erected on a 4000 foot plateau in the middle of the Mojave desert by World War One medic Riley Bembry in 1934 as a place of reflection for war veterans who had gone to the desert for relief from lung damage caused by mustard gas while on the Western Front. Riley Bembry never got official permission to erect a memorial on public land, but no one seemed to mind at least until the late 1990s.
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Posted by Editor at October 6, 2009 01:20 AM