TODD STARNES: Group sues over war memorial cross- Boy suspended for saying word 'gun'

By Todd Starnes

The American Humanist Association filed a lawsuit against a California city demanding that a proposed war memorial be scrapped because it features the image of a soldier kneeling at a graveside cross.

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The Lake Elsinore City Council approved the $50,000 memorial in spite of a warning from their attorney that the project might be unconstitutional.

The city has clearly violated the First Amendment by unnecessarily choosing a divisively religious means of honor our veterans, said William Burgess, an attorney with the Appignani Humanist Legal Center. In addition, the California constitution prohibits any governmental funding whatsoever for religious purposes, including religious monuments.

An artists rendering of the war memorial

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The monument is slated to be erected in front of the citys baseball stadium. It features the soldier kneeling before the graveside cross underneath an American flag and an eagle.

Freedom is never free, reads an inscription on the base of the monument. Honoring our brave men and women who by their service give life to our most precious gift freedom.

The council also added a Star of David to the design but Burgess said the monument still had to go.

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