Crayons, crosses and correctness

Jerry, that column was by far the most sensible thing the Herald has yet printed on the cross issue. You should be on the editorial board.

-Mr. Toy
www.montereypeninsula.info

If the cross had been the original artifact, Mr. Gervase would have a point in retaining such an historical marker, which I would support. But since it was instead a commemorative object which simultaneously conveys religious significance, it enjoys no such protection on land since transferred to state ownership.

Find and prosecute the culprits who cut the cross down, but replace it with a more appropriate secular marker.

The ACLU utilizes the threat of lawsuits to forward its Sociliast Anti-Judeo-Christian agenda counting on instilling fear and intimidation due to the high cost of defending a lawsuit. The ACLU will defend a Muslim religious agenda but not the former listed above. When public and private entities take a stand and challenge the ACLU, they have a very good chance of defeating the lawsuit as demonstrated in the past.

As Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU stated, "Communism is the goal"

ROBOT wrote:

As Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU stated, "Communism is the goal"

The quotation is from 1935.

From Wikipedia: "He later denounced communism in his book, A New Slavery, which condemned "the inhuman communist police state tyranny".[3] In the 1940s, Baldwin led the campaign to purge the ACLU of Communist Party members.[3]

In 1947, General Douglas MacArthur invited him to Japan to foster the growth of civil liberties in that country. In Japan, he founded the Japan Civil Liberties Union, and the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun. In 1948, Germany and Austria invited him for similar purposes."

A more applicable quote is: "So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."

In order to ensure the separation of church and state, religious symbology should be excluded from public property. Otherwise, in order to continue to enjoy the exclusion from taxation, churches might be required to erect flagpoles and fly the American flag on church buildings.