Supreme Court Appears Ready To Let 40-Foot Cross Stand On Public Land
From NPR, a report by Nina Totenberg on the cross case, featuring Holly Hollman and others.
From NPR, a report by Nina Totenberg on the cross case, featuring Holly Hollman and others.
Holly Hollman and Marc Stern, general counsel of the American Jewish Committee, coauthored an editorial emphasizing that despite their religious differences, they agree that a large cross on public land is not a secular monument.
Holly Hollman joined other faith groups in urging the Supreme Court to uphold the separation of church and state as they consider the case of the large cross on public land in Maryland.
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty joined in a friend-of-the-court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling that a 40-foot cross on government land violates the U.S. Constitution.
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty joined other Christian and Jewish organizations in a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that a 40-foot cross on government land at a major intersection violates the government’s fundamental obligation to be neutral between competing religious claims.
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