Christian monument is saved.

Washington, D.C. -- On August 1, the U.S Senate transferred ownership of Mount Soledad Mount Soledad is a prominent landmark in the city of San Diego, California, United States. The mountaintop is the site of the "Mount Soledad cross", the subject of a continuing controversy over the involvement of religion in government. Veterans' Memorial in San Diego, CA, to the federal government, thus protecting the monument with its 29-foot cross from an atheist Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. veteran. The veteran had filed a lawsuit against the municipality claiming the cross violated the separation of Church and State

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Separation of church and state is a political and legal doctrine which states that government and religious institutions are to be kept separate and independent of one another. . It was part of the on-going attempt by the American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. to drive Christianity out of public life.

In July the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay in the case, which suspended a lower court decision that would have forced the city to remove the cross from public land or risk a $5,000-per-day fine.

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