{"id":3207,"date":"2009-09-17T14:54:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T18:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2009-09-17T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T18:55:20","slug":"scotus-faces-cross-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/17\/scotus-faces-cross-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS faces cross ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3208\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/09\/cross.jpeg\" alt=\"cross\" width=\"98\" height=\"118\" \/>The Supreme Court soon will <a title=\"take up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jay-wexler\/the-courts-cross-to-bear_b_288547.html\" target=\"_blank\">take up <\/a>a church vs. state case\u00a0pitting veterans groups and the Interior Department against the ACLU and a former Park Service worker.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about a cross erected on public land 75 years ago as a WWI veterans&#8217; memorial.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Jay Wexler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/wexler_j.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Wexler<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"Holy Hullabaloos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.holyhullabaloos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holy Hullabaloos<\/a>: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church\/State Wars<\/em>,&#8221; says the Supremes should uphold lower court decisions finding the cross unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Jay Wexler, 617-353-3789, <a href=\"mailto:jaywex@bu.edu\">jaywex@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court soon will take up a church vs. state case\u00a0pitting veterans groups and the Interior Department against the ACLU and a former Park Service worker.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about a cross erected on public land 75 years ago as a WWI veterans&#8217; memorial.\u00a0 Law Professor Jay Wexler, author of &#8220;Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}