Anti-Defamation League Issues Statement on Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Maryland Cross to Stand on Public Ground
June 20, 2019
June 20, 2019
NEW YORK, June 20 -- The Anti-Defamation League issued the following statement by CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt on the Supreme Court ruling allowing a 40-foot Latin cross to continue to stand on a traffic island at a major intersection in Bladensburg, Maryland:
"We are alarmed that the Supreme Court has allowed a 40-foot memorial cross to remain on government property in Maryland. As Justice Ginsburg wrote in dissent, 'the principal symbol of Christianity aroun . . .
"We are alarmed that the Supreme Court has allowed a 40-foot memorial cross to remain on government property in Maryland. As Justice Ginsburg wrote in dissent, 'the principal symbol of Christianity aroun . . .