Veterans and their families are offended and angered by the Veterans Administration’s religious symbols policy. Since its original implementation in 2002 during the George W. Bush administration, the VA policy on holiday activities and the display of religious symbols within their hospitals has become a burden on VA patients, and has caused anger and frustration among veterans and their families who believe that the policy, which was renewed by the VA in 2009 under the Obama Administration, infringes on their First Amendment religious liberties. This “anti-religious display” policy is based on a line of Supreme Court decisions ending with the extremely fragmented opinions in the case of County of Allegheny v. ACLU, 492 U.S. 573 (1989), where the nine justices wrote several differing opinions in deciding two different winter holiday cases regarding the constitutionality of displaying religious symbols on public property. Justice Blackmun, writing the majority...(Read Full Article)