Nice to know that things are so calm that all we have to worry about is giant crosses:

A gigantic cross in San Diego that has been the focus of a 17-year court battle became the property of the federal government yesterday with President Bush’s signature.

Supporters hope the legislation enabling the federal government to purchase the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial — featuring a 29-foot cross — from the city of San Diego will protect it permanently. A series of court decisions have deemed the cross unconstitutional because it stands on public property.

Note the assumption at hand here.  Not only is the term “public property” invoked as being synonymous with government “property” (the State has no legitimate title to land, what it has is either stolen or bought with stolen money), but now there are levels of “public property”.  Having a giant cross on land that allegedly belongs to the city government somehow becomes allowable if the same cross on the same land is transferred in title to the federal government.  Somehow I doubt that this is what the veterans — at least those who signed up for the military willingly & were not enslaved — had in mind.

Ok, obviously there’s the property rights issue with this (government cannot hold a legitimate title), and also the question of this implicitly endorsing the idea of the US military as “crusaders” despite many who fought in it not being christians.  But honestly, you can diffuse this entire thing, as well as any other “so what if it’s government-owned grounds, you’re just anti-religion” arguements against the aspiring Roy Moores out there w/ one question:

“So you wouldn’t mind me putting a giant statue of Vishnu up at _______(insert government building here)____?”