How the Mainstream Media Sees Bladensburg
New York Times author, Linda Greenhouse reveals how much of the mainstream media really views the fight for the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial. Learn more at Firstliberty.org/Briefing.
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It is always interesting to read how the mainstream media views things like the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial.
Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times recently authored a lengthy commentary. Her conclusion? That the folks trying to destroy the memorial are going to lose, but that’s about it for the good news.
According to Greenhouse, a growing faction of conservative Justices of the Supreme Court that are increasingly committed to interpreting the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause as permitting the display of religious symbols on public property and the Free Exercise Clause as providing, in her words, “robust protection for believers.”
To Greenhouse, this is not good because, she says:
“the heart and soul of a diverse country . . . is going in one direction while the Supreme Court . . . is hurtling in the other, toward a destination fraught with uncertainty and danger.”
But, that is factually untrue. For one thing, according to recent polling 80% of Americans agree that memorials using religious imagery to remember our war dead is perfectly reasonable. Those are the real “heart and soul” of this country.
Removing religious imagery from public display does not make us more diverse. It sends a message contrary to the Constitution’s promise that religion in America is to be respected in personal and public life.
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