July 27, 2005 For Immediate Release For More Information

JEWS AGAINST ANTI-CHRISTIAN DEFAMATION APPLAUDS SAN DIEGO VOTE TO SAVE MT. SOLEDAD CROSS

San Diego voters, who overwhelmingly approved the transfer of land to the federal government - to save the Mt. Soledad Cross -- are to be applauded," said JAACD President Don Feder. "The transfer is the only way to preserve a 29-foot cross at the center of a war memorial, which has stood at the summit of Mt. Soledad for 51 years," Feder disclosed.

In a city-wide referendum yesterday, 75% approved giving the land with the cross to the federal government to be maintained as a National War Memorial. The controversy started in 1989, when a local atheist sued the city, claiming the cross on municipal land violates the First Amendment Establishment Clause. Naturally, activist judges agreed.

In 1998, the City tried to sell the site to private parties who wanted to preserve the cross. The sale was invalidated by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The latest move will also be opposed. The ACLU - which claims the cross is the equivalent of a state church – has announced that it intends to challenge the referendum, which "doesn’t mean a damn thing," according to an ACLU lawyer.

"This is what we’ve come to," Feder commented. "The secularist jihad, led by ACLU mullahs, will stop at nothing to expunge this nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage, and to prevent the government from paying tribute to the Christians who died defending America."

"What next," Feder asked? "What about all of those crosses on federal land in veterans cemeteries, here and abroad? Doesn’t this constitute government endorsement of religion as well? Compare the number of Christians who died fighting for America to the number of ACLU lawyers who were killed in their country’s service. No comparison," Feder observed.

Like the two-thirds of San Diego voters who cast their ballots to save the Mt. Soledad cross, most Americans are fed-up with the left’s efforts to forcibly secularize a nation whose currency bears the motto, "In God We Trust" and whose founding document speaks of individuals being "endowed by their Creator" with inalienable rights.

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