Seventy-five years ago, the Veterans of Foreign Wars erected a cross in  the desert.  That desert eventually became part of a preserve, and what was an act, memorializing heroes, became a source of litigation.  The ACLU sought to ban the "religious symbol," the Ninth Circuit complied, and it stood covered for years. No longer.  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court overruled the Ninth Circuit, sending atheists into a tizzy.  Good news, though the victory is tempered by the narrowness of the ruling and an ideological split.  When you walk into the U.S. Capitol, it says: In God We Trust.  Yet it seems that increasingly, we accommodate those who hate Him.  While it may shock the ACLU, the signers of the Constitution would've frowned on cross-banning.    They desired God in public life.  They'd come from Europe, where an all-powerful and corrupt church had embedded itself in government, so rejected "state"...(Read Full Post)