WWI Vets, The Cross, and the Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert Memorial Cross in the Mojave National Preserve was erected in 1934 by World War I veterans to commemorate their fallen comrades. For seventy-five years it's been there, and is now under attack, backed by the knuckleheads that sit on the Ninth Circuit Court. Of course the ACLU is initiating the attack on WWI Vets by claiming the Cross violates the separation of church and state.

Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel: "Passive displays like the World War I Memorial, the Ten Commandments, Nativity scenes, or statements like the National Motto do not force anyone to participate in a religious exercise and, thus, do not establish religion." "This case reveals the extreme lengths the ACLU will go to in order to erase religious monuments." "For 75 years this cross in the Mojave Desert did not disturb anyone." "It stood as a memorial to the heroes of World War I. Removing this memorial would be an insult to our war veterans. Doing so under the guise of the First Amendment is an insult to the Framers of the Constitution."

The ACLU is doing this because a man from Oregon has alleged he might drive on the desert road in in the middle of the nowhere and might be offended by the cross.

This land was once owned by the VFW and they had donated it to the federal government in the 1930's. An offer has been made to swap another five acres for the five the Cross sits on so it'll be back on private property. No go. Denied.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the Cross and the land transfer violated the Establishment Clause. The Cross has been enclosed in plywood to prevent people from seeing it until the case is resolved.

Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel of Liberty Legal Institute and attorney for the veterans groups: "It is bad enough to say that the veterans’ memorial is unconstitutional, but it is outrageous to say that the government cannot give the monument back to the people who spilled their blood and put it there in the first place.”

Jay Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice: "This is a critical case that will once again put the spotlight on the constitutionality of religious displays and the proper role of the government and its actions." "There's nothing wrong with the government transferring property containing symbols with religious significance to private parties. We're hopeful that the high court will conclude that the long-standing display of this cross does not create a constitutional crisis and that the action by the federal government represented a constitutionally-sound solution."

We're used to the ACLU and secular judges and other anti-Christian bigots attacking Christianity, but attacking WWI Vets and a symbol of their remembrance? One that sits in the Mojave Desert? Just another proof to me that the ACLU is not just intolerant anti-Christian bigots, but anti-American too. Bashing Vets.

On June 8, 2009, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling of anti-Christian bigots of the Ninth Circuit Court.

OMG! A Cross in the Middle of Nowhere! What shall I do? I'm so offended!! Good grief.

More Attacks on Christianity in America

A few weeks ago I wrote about and posted a vid of music that a high school music group could not play, just music, no words, because of the title "Ave Maria". There's also the WWI Veteran Memorial in the middle of the Mojave Desert that intolerant bigots are trying to tear down because it's a cross. Both these cases have been sent up to the Supreme Court.

Another development in the high school case, in the form of a letter from an intolerant anti Christian bigot. The "Ave Maria", sung in Latin, (I know because we are singing it in our Christmas Concert this year), is by Franz Biebl. It's not the well known one by Schubert. I bring this up because the letter writer says just the title puts the words of the song in her head. I've sung it dozens of times, and I still need to read it. It's in Latin! Excerpt from her letter: "That melody is very familiar to all of us, and when we hear the instruments play, the words are immediately heard in our brains." "If secular people of all stripes, whether atheist, agnostic, skeptic or freethinker, don't speak out about these abuses...we will be no better than the Islamic jihadists."

This piece of music is soooooo beautiful, I'm stunned that anyone can link it to murdering Islamofascists. I wonder if she finds Zepplin's "Stairway to Heaven" offensive because of the word heaven. Perhaps this needs to be scrubbed from the airways.

On to the latest bit of bigotry. Penn State is selling a tee-shirt with a vertical blue stripe down the middle of the front, and "Penn State" horizontally across the stripe. OMG! It's a cross! It's forcing Christianity down everyones' throat! The blue stripe is the same as on the football helmets. Based on six complaints, the Anti-Defamation League is involved. Thirty thousand shirts have been sold.

How ridiculous can anti-Christian bigots get? How intolerant? Liberalism used to be the idea of letting people live and let live, of acceptance. Of freedom of expression.

We have a cross commemorating Vets in the middle of the desert that you have to really really go out of your way to see, being attacked. We have a fairly obscure piece of music, without words, being attacked. We have a tee shirt with a stripe on it, being attacked. Good heavens! Oooops. Hope that didn't offend anyone. Good grief.

WWI Vets, The Cross, and the Mojave Desert Part 2

I wrote of this monument in the middle of the Mojave this past June. A memorial in the middle of nowhere for WWI fallen soldiers. The Supreme Court will hear this case this coming Wednesday. A part of their belief systems is this. What kind of people would do such a thing, as to deny this kind of tribute? Intolerant, hateful cowards. If the Court passes this, it'll be a sad sad day for Amerika.



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A Chronical of Obama's Anti Religious Beliefs Turned Into Action

1. Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith: 

April 2008 Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they cling to guns or religion and have an antipathy to people who aren't like them.1

February 2009 Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011.2

April 2009 When speaking at Georgetown University , Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his speech. 3

May 2009 Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. 4

April 2009 In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican ; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three.5

October 19, 2010 Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about the Creator when quoting the Declaration of Independence an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions. 6

November 2010 Obama misquotes the National Motto, substituting E pluribus unum rather than In God We Trust as established by federal law.7

January 2011 After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court.8

February 2011 Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress. 9

April 2011 For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring. 10

August 2011 The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception. 11

November 2011 Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelts famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. 12

November 2011 Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech.13

December 2011 The Obama administration denigrates other countries' religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. 14

January 2012 The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis.15

February 2012 The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion. 16

2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of Biblical faith:

June 2011 The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery . 17

August 2011 The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except America). 18

September 2011 Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains. 19

September 2011 The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit. 20

November 2011  The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity. 21

November 2011  The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans.22

February 2012  The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (Jerry) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian.23

February 2012  The Air Force removes God from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei).24

February 2012  The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read.25

3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:

January 2009  Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to

fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations.26

January 2009  President Obamas nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional. 27

March 2009 The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. 28

March 2009  Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. 29

March 2009  Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.30

May 2009  The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with comprehensive sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions.31 He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. 32

May 2009  Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their criminal activities. 33

July 2009  The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.34

September 16, 2009  The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should not tolerate any private beliefs, including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual equality. 35

July 2010  The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion.36

August 2010  The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs.37

September 2010  The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judges decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.38

February 2011  Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.39

March 2011 The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls.40

July 2011  Obama, against advice from senior officers, allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778.41

September 2011  The Pentagon, against advice from senior officers, directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. 42

October 2011 The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion.43

4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:

May 2009 While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan ( a Islamic Holy Month). 44

April 2010  Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the Pentagons National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community. 45

April 2010  The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc. 46

August 2010 Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity. 47

August 2010  Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location. 48

2010  While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.49

October 2011  Obamas Muslim advisers block Middle EasternChristians access to the White House. 50

February 2012  The Obama administration makes effulgentapologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, 51

but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do.52

Sources for these here.