Justice Alito and the four justices who joined in his Opinion of the Court in this case held that the Bladensburg Peace Cross does not violate the Establishment Clause. Among other things, they argued—against two millennia of religious... more
Justice Alito and the four justices who joined in his Opinion of the Court in this case held that the Bladensburg Peace Cross does not violate the Establishment Clause. Among other things, they argued—against two millennia of religious history—that the Cross had and/or has a secular meaning. Justice Ginsburg, in dissent, eviscerated the majority's unhistorical notion that a Latin cross such as the Bladensburg Cross could ever be understood to be a common, secular symbol: such a view insults not only non-Christians but also devout Christians, who for almost 2,000 years have considered the cross to be a holy symbol of their faith.
