Cross Purpose: Religious Right Lawyers Secularize Christian Symbol To Get Utah Case Before Supreme C

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Cross Purpose: Religious Right Lawyers Secularize Christian Symbol To Get Utah Case Before Supreme Court

Source: The Wall of Separation
April 21st, 2011
By Joseph L. Conn

For Christians, it’s Holy Week, and you don’t have to look too far to find crosses on display at churches and other venues. As pretty much everyone knows, that symbol represents the crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday and is generally regarded as the central representation of the Christian faith.

But if you ask the lawyers at the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), you might get a different take.

The Religious Right group just asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a case from Utah dealing with 12-foot crosses displayed – with government approval – along the roadside to honor fallen state troopers.

The ADF attorneys, who represent the Utah Highway Patrol Association, put forward a lot of arguments to get the justices’ attention and one of them was this:

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