The following comes from an April 5 Town Hall article by Robert Knight:
A large cross commemorating the landing by Spanish explorers in Monterey, California in 1769 was back at Del Monte Beach, erected anonymously over Easter weekend.
For a few tense days, vampires and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers knew to avoid the area, while families took Easter pictures in front of the cross.
But last Tuesday, beachgoers discovered the cross missing, the victim not of hooligans but of a city crew that was ordered to tear it down earlier that morning before progressive legal sharks even began circling.
In 2009, vandals had cut down a 20-foot redwood cross that the city of Monterey erected in 1969 as part of its 200th anniversary celebration of the Spanish expedition led by Don Caspar de Portolá and Father Juan Crespi. City officials had moved quickly to replace it, but were stopped by the ACLU’s threat of a costly lawsuit.
Although the cross was a historic marker, the ACLU argued that its presence on a public beach violated the “wall of separation” between church and state. So the cross was moved to the Roman Catholic Church’s San Carlos Cemetery in central Monterey, which adjoins the second California mission founded by Father Junipero Serra.
Just before this past Easter Sunday, however, a steel version of the Portola-Crespi cross suddenly appeared on the beach in the same spot where the original was cut down back in 2009, according to KSBW.com. It was a rare departure from current trends.
“The new cross comes after a number of religion-related acts of vandalism have occurred on the Monterey Peninsula, including the destruction of statues at the Carmel mission and a statue of Saint Junipero Serra at the Presidio,” the station reported.
ACLU means American Communist Lawyers Union, out to destroy American culture, values, and Christian denominations, especially the Roman Catholic Church. They of course will get their Just Reward at the end of their members lives. Just remember hell is for eternity! It is the most miserable place in the universe.
coming soon, the banning of religious gestures while on state , county or government property including roads. many cars seem to make religious statements through bumper-stickers and mirror-pendants, often referring to different branches of world religions. whether a yellow prayer flag or a O L guadalupe bumpersticker or the image of a guru. while this is allowable on private property, greater scrutiny will be exercized in the name of a ‘neutral zone’ . if you must make the sign of the cross while in traffic, this will be tantamount to building a cross at the state capital and officers will respond accordingly. drivers who have tried to defend the presence of a…
..drivers who have tried to defend the presence of cross symbol on their vehicles by alleging that ‘it was just an archaic form of a plus sign’ have been asked to replace it with an X or run a minus sign boldly over it. coming later:the problem of those telephone poles that seem so cruciform.