Why You, Yes You, Should Oppose the WTC Cross

Here’s an excellent post explaining the problems of the World Trade Center Girder Cross, why there is a lawsuit to stop it, and why you should be opposed to this monument even if you’re Christian. The first paragraph is a quote from President James Madison that is so perfectly apt even to this day that I will post it in its entirety here in addition to a link to the rest of the explanation about this cross in particular.

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects? that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?

– President James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785)