The conflict surrounding the Maryland Peace Cross – which is a forty-foot Celtic cross that was constructed in 1925 by the American Legion and local families in Bladensburg to commemorate 49 local men who lost their lives in the First World War – has been raging for some time now.
The American Humanist Association in an expression of typical fedora-tipping navel-gazing brought a law suit against the State of Maryland, because they claim that cross – meant purely as a war memorial not as a means for propagating Christianity – (1) violates the separation of Church and State. (2)
Notably absent from this has by any condemnation of jewish religious monuments and iconography – such as the menorah and star of David – by the American Humanist Association as well as any defence of the Maryland Peace Cross by jewish groups. Beyond a mealy-mouthed editorial plea from the jewish editor of the Washington Post Martin Baron to ‘keep the peace cross’ (3) that wouldn’t even inspire John the Baptist to bother to protest.
Meanwhile the ‘Jewish War Veterans of America’ ‘in a supporting brief, argues that 11,000 Jews in Prince George’s County, Maryland, are subjected each day to overt government discrimination against patriotic soldiers who are not Christian.’ (4)
This is going on despite the fact that the local people – who should surely get the final say in such a matter – want to keep the peace cross as it is and not have it bagged up in a tarpaulin, because some professional fedora-tipping jewish muppet living in a gated community and sipping soy lattes a hundred miles away is ‘offended’. (5)
This inaction and silence by jewish groups stands in stark contrast to any perceived assault on jewish symbols or alleged ‘anti-Semitic hate crimes’ when jews and their communal organisations demand and require Christians to not only line up behind them to denounce ‘anti-Semitism’, ‘bigotry’ and ‘prejudice’, but also to reach deeply in their pockets so that they can ‘show they are sorry’ by ‘paying reparations’ to the self-chosen people.
One rule for me but not for thee much?
References
(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/us/politics/peace-cross-maryland-court-first-amendment.html
(2) Ibid; http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bs-md-bladensburg-peace-cross-20171018-story.html
(3) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-peace-cross-is-a-religious-monument-let-it-stand-anyway/2017/11/24/1ce9441e-be77-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.f483d4e17b31
(4) http://sandhillsexpress.com/abc_national/supreme-court-to-decide-fate-of-crossshaped-wwi-memorial-in-maryland-abcid36161033/
(5) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/us/politics/peace-cross-maryland-court-first-amendment.html