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Judges Warning: ‘Hundreds’ of Crosses at Risk

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Hundreds of crosses at war memorials across the nation are at risk because a panel from the Fourth U.S. Court of Appeals condemned the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial to destruction and the full court refused to reconsider, contends one of the judges.

The warning came from Fourth Circuit Judge Paul Niemeyer. . .

“The holding not only violates [precedent], it also needlessly puts at risk hundreds of monuments with similar symbols standing on public grounds across the country, such as those in nearby Arlington National Cemetery,” he said.

“Because this ruling has such far-reaching and unnecessary consequences, it should be reheard by our court en banc, and I dissent from the vote not to do so.”

The non-profit legal group First Liberty has been fighting the lawsuit filed by atheists who contend the presence of the cross on government property — the land was private when the memorial was built — violates the First Amendment. (Read more from “Judges Warning: ‘Hundreds’ of Crosses at Risk” HERE)

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Texas-Sized! America’s Largest Cross to Be Built

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Photo Credit: Corpus Christi Cross ProjectThe largest cross in the US is coming to the “Body of Christ,” also known as Corpus Christi, Texas.

The Corpus Christi Cross Project broke ground at the Abundant Life Fellowship campus off Interstate 37 on Sunday. Pastor Rick Milby says the massive cross will eventually stretch 95 feet wide and 210 feet high, making it the biggest in the Western Hemisphere, reports the Houston Chronicle.

The idea for the project came to Milby after he first spotted a huge cross in Houston and heard about “lives that were changed, suicides that were aborted, relationships that were restored because of the influence of the cross,” he writes on the project’s website . . .

The Corpus Christi cross will be so big that the design allows for “a two-foot deflection at the top — it will actually sway in the wind two feet back and forth,” Milby tells KRIS TV.

And as for whether such winds can topple it, Milby says the concrete foundation’s 24 piers will be anchored 48 feet deep, “so if it were to blow over, it would pull up about three acres of land with it.” (Read more from “Texas-Sized! America’s Largest Cross to Be Built” HERE)

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