Stories Related to Desert Cross Can Stay, High Court Says

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Wed, 04/28/2010 - 8:11am

The Supreme Court has ruled that a white cross, erected as a war memorial and placed on national parkland in the California desert, does not violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

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