Post by Logan on Apr 13, 2016 20:17:48 GMT -6
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said from Pierre that he and attorney generals from North Dakota and 24 other states are weighing in on a legal battle over a cross in Maryland. He said in a news release it's a bipartisan effort only to honor veterans of World War I but to address larger issues.
The atheist American Humanist Association has appealed a federal judge's ruling that a 40-foot-tall cross on land owned by the state of Maryland doesn't violate the U.S. Constitution. The case is in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jackley says the 26 states have signed a brief asking the appeals court to affirm the federal judge's ruling.
The judge ruled in December that the 90-year-old monument known as the Bladensburg Cross doesn't amount to government sponsorship of religion.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/sd-nd-join-federal-case-against-atheists-in-maryland/article_e9bdd546-019e-11e6-9aa4-0ba089678ac5.html
The atheist American Humanist Association has appealed a federal judge's ruling that a 40-foot-tall cross on land owned by the state of Maryland doesn't violate the U.S. Constitution. The case is in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jackley says the 26 states have signed a brief asking the appeals court to affirm the federal judge's ruling.
The judge ruled in December that the 90-year-old monument known as the Bladensburg Cross doesn't amount to government sponsorship of religion.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/sd-nd-join-federal-case-against-atheists-in-maryland/article_e9bdd546-019e-11e6-9aa4-0ba089678ac5.html