We should put this temple right in front of it.

I read that earlier today and my first thought is that other religious symbols need to be added to the site! This cross does not represent all the people in America, nor what what the Nation stands for! What about the original inhabitants of this land? Should something representing the original people be put there...I believe so! I don’t care how long it has been standing there, we are not a ‘nation of the cross!’ If other symbols representing all the different people’s beliefs in this Country, I would be OK with it!

Wow! The decision is all political spin. The court turned truth inside out.

What a crock! Blow it up!

Yeah but they also want public funds to repair the damn thing is crumbling to pieces.

So if the cross is not a symbol of religion just think of all the fun we can have with it.

IMO it was a reasonable decision. There are no limits to where this might have gone if the cross had been ordered down.

Consider public libraries. Within those libraries are books of art that show churches with crosses. Would you order that those books be destroyed? Also there are many religious books in the libraries, books that actively advocate for particular religions. What about all the books that just mention a particular religion?

The critical factor here is that the government is not maintaining the library books for the purpose of establishing a religion, and the State of Maryland is not maintaining a concrete cross for the purpose of establishing a religion.

If you are troubled by the sight of a symbol perhaps you are insecure in your atheism and need to do further contemplation.

I think I figured out a good compromise for this situation... Cut the horizontal arms off. Think about it... It would still be a WWI monument, and would no longer be a religious symbol on government property. Win win.

Justice Alito wrote the decision opinion. Elena Kagan defected and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented from the 7-2 ruling in the case.

With democratic justices like Kagan who needs enemies?

Not surprising. I can't imagine how the other more reasonable members felt about this insidious decision.

I have to agree with the dissenters (Ginsburg and Sotomayor) in this case. The cross is a religious symbol and as such it not only promotes one religion over all others but also over non-religion. Since it is on public land and is being maintained by the State it violates the First Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional. I do not agree with Justice Alito that its removal would constitute a State move against religion, any more than pulling a thorn from ones foot it a move against flowering plants. The cross does not belong there, period. I believe I have a solution to the problem. Just cut the arms off the cross and leave the upright part standing. Then it becomes an obelisk, a neutral symbol. It is a fair compromise. Doubtless the religionists would object, but that just goes to show that it is the religious symbology, staking out this land as a Christian country, that matters to them. They need to suck it up and get over it. This country was founded on secularism.

If the object in question is the one pictured, that isn’t a crucifix, since there is no body being crucified, it’s just a cross. But I highly doubt that if the person x-tians claim to worship actually existed and died similar to the tale in the bible, the object he was executed on looked anything remotely similar to this. This is an extremely idealized version of the device the Romans used to execute criminals.

It is a historic monument for fallen shoulders something seen in graveyards not a statement of belief

Yes, nothing religious about a crucifix. Anyone remember the movie "The Sign of the Cross?" The original translations we have today say it was a stake. Ask yourself how churches would use a stake or make the sign of the stake? This makes the crucifix a very important religious symbol.

It's a cross not a crucifix, but would the decision have been the same if the monument were in the shape of a six-pointed star or crescent moon.

How about a huge "A" for atheist!

Who was the other dissenter along with RBG? I worry about those court decisions as it just fuel to the Christian fire.

I haven't read the decision, but NPR's summary seems to imply that this is an extra-constitutional indeterminate time limit on rectifying violations of the Constitution. This sets a bad precedent, possibly applicable to other cases that might arise; cases in which the violation has some kind of history, and not necessarily a very long history.

I find it funny that Christians have no idea where their religion or its symbols come from. The cross not only predates Christianity, but predates all Abrahamic faiths by more than a 1,000 years, and is entirely Pagan.

The "crucifixion" would have looked more like this picture, just a simple stake. Every reference in the bible refer to a stake, limb, or tree. And wood was a bit precious, the Romans would not have been wasteful with it. It is very likely those stakes were permanently in the ground, and they would cut down a dead guy and put up another.

I think they should build the bypass through it, you need bypasses you know

It’s a small matter, not worth a lot of emotional energy.
If someone wants to put up some symbol I don’t care as long as they don’t try to make me kneel and vow allegiance or coerce me into belief.

The crucifixion and resurrection, even if they happened as claimed, are totally meaningless and trivial. What is the miracle is that any of us exist at all.

That is worth emotional energy!