It took 103 years to solve the controversy of the Soledad Cross, a large christian cross erected by atop Mount Soledad in La Jolla, San Diago, CA. The first cross was erected in 1913 and the case was “solved” in 2016 when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to continue the case.
On July 20, 2015, The Mt. Soledad Memorial Association, a private group reported it bought the land under the cross from the Federal governments Dept. of Defense for $1.4 million.
On September 7, 2016 the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page ruling, ordering dismissal of the case and an end to all current appeals, stating that the case was now moot (over) because the cross was no longer on government land. Both sides agreed that this decision puts a final end to the case. An ACLU spokesman said, “I think this now resolves the case. The government doesn’t own the cross or the land underneath it any more.”
But that didn’t end the hatred against the large christian symbol that’s visible for miles. Solved it is for the supporters and lovers of the cross because the cross stays put.
Fast forward to 2017 and the Confederate Statues that are being destroyed by people who are offended by slavery and view Confederate statues as symbols of hate, just as many view the Soledad cross. The answer for the cross was to sell the land and the symbol to a private association. But that only put the destruction of the cross into the category of a crime. It didn’t stop the hate. The same can be done to the Confederate statues. If they are on private land and owned by a private person or organization they are off limits to people and the mobs that want to destroy them.
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