Friday, September 07, 2007

Judges Can't Abide the Cross

"A grave constitutional injury already exists."

Oh my, what can Judge Margaret McKeown be referring to? Suspension of the rights of habeas corpus? An egregious abridgment of free speech? The income tax? Perhaps the unwarranted legalization of abortion?

No. It's something even more haunting, more threatening. Indeed, it is the presence in our midst of that which most chills the heart of every materialist, every would-be atheist and, for that matter, every vampire; namely, a cross.

Here's the Reuters story on a three-judge panel upholding a ban on the Sunrise Rock cross, a spot that is actually on private land but in the middle of a Mojave Desert federal preserve.