In Elk Township, Ohio, a large cross monument was installed in the Vinton County cemetery in 2004, after being kept in storage for eight years. The American Civil Liberties Union has ordered the county to remove the cross because it is in a government-owned cemetery, implying that they will be sued by the ACLU if they don’t comply with their demands.

It’s not a veiled threat either. In 1996 the ACLU sued Vinton County, forcing them to remove a cross that had stood for 40 years in the Vinton County Courthouse in McAlester, Ohio. Vinton County, population 12,000, apparently did not stand a chance against the well-funded ACLU.

Even bigger counties are caving in to demands and threats of lawsuits made by the ACLU. In Los Angeles, California, county supervisors decided to remove a small cross in their city seal rather than fight the lawsuit.

But a Los Angeles County employee apparently had more courage that the county he works for. Ernesto Vasquez filed a lawsuit against the county to prevent the county from removing the cross. He filed the lawsuit in a federal district court with the assistance of the Thomas More Law Center, saying that the removal of the cross sends a “government-sponsored message of hostility towards Christians”.

Li Mandri of the Thomas More Law Center said, “whether it be same-sex marriage, the removal of ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance, or now the removal of a small cross from the LA County seal, the impact is the same: the de-Christianizing of our society.”

Richard Thomas, also of the Thomas More Law Center, said that the “ACLU has a plan to systemically remove Christianity from the public square”.

In another case, a simple white cross that had been placed at the Mojave Desert Preserve in 1934 by World War I veterans has come under fire by the ACLU. The Preserve is federal land that is operated by the National Park Service.

In 2004, one of the Park Service employees objected to the cross and went to the ACLU, who filed a lawsuit. It was finally heard by the Ninth Circuit, who, big surprise, ordered the cross removed. The attorney for the ACLU said, "Sometimes you just have to hit them over the head three, four or five times”, presumably about Christians who wanted to keep the cross in place.

Jay Sekulow, with the American Center for Law and Justice, a legal firm formed by televangelist Pat Robertson, was asked if the Mojave Desert case could set a precedent that could affect the crosses at Arlington National Cemetery.

Sekulow replied, “I’m concerned about that, and I think that the court decision is a very, very serious violation of the Constitution in and of itself. I think the idea that you would now take a symbol and say because it has a religious association it has to be removed is wrong. In my view, why wouldn’t it affect Arlington Cemetery? Why wouldn’t it affect a number of other places where there are religious references?”

The ACLU addressed this issue on their website in their FAQ section, answering the question “Why does the ACLU want to remove crosses from federal cemeteries?” Their answer was, “the ACLU is not pursuing, nor has it ever pursued, the removal of religious symbols from personal gravestones. Personal gravestones are the choice of the family members, not the choice of the government. The ACLU celebrates this freedom to choose the religious symbol of your choice.”

Notice that their answer did not promise not to pursue the removal of crosses from federal cemeteries; it only stated that it had never tried to have them removed from “personal” gravestones that were not the choice of the government. The gravestones in Arlington are provided by the government, not by family members.

So watch for the ACLU to eventually sue the federal government to remove the crosses from the gravestones in Arlington. They will do it.

The ACLU is as insidious, evil organization. It is obvious that their ultimate goal is to obliterate the cross completely from public view. If they are not stopped, it is my firm belief that twenty years from now, we will no longer be able to display crosses anywhere that they may be visible to the public. That will include crosses on churches that could be seen from public streets.