For a group that pretends to be for the Bill of Rights, the ACLU sure doesn't like the 1st amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion.
Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a cross display in the Mojave Desert, the 75-year-old landmark has been stolen, reported the National Park Service Monday.
Mojave National Preserve officials discovered Monday that the 7-foot cross had been stolen, and the metal bolts anchoring the cross cut off, National Park Service spokeswoman Linda Slater said.
A wooden cross was originally erected on the spot in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with a plaque stating, “The Cross, Erected in Memory of the Dead of All Wars” and “Erected 1934 by Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Death Valley Post 2884.” The cross, later replaced with one made of pipe metal, became the site of Easter gatherings starting the following year, and in 1984 the services became regular.
After the ACLU sued to tear down the cross, the U.S. Supreme Court in a fractured ruling last month allowed the cross to stay for now, but sent the case back to the district court with instructions to consider the implications of the proposal to transfer the land surrounding the cross to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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