Why are Offended Observers ("grrrr") so Offended?

 Here is a thought I had this morning when thinking about how anyone could be deeply offended by a war memorial in the form of a cross. I mean who are these people that find something so harmless deeply offensive?

I think that the fault lies with the Supreme Court and decades of strict separationist jurisprudence. It caused people to believe they had a constitutional right to a naked public square, a strictly secular public domain. Nothing in the text or history of the Constitution would justify such a belief; but decades of Supreme Court Establishment Clause jurisprudence might.

So, picture someone driving past the Bladensburg Cross and feeling that somehow this display was unconstitutional, was a denial of his or her constitutional right to a completely secular public square. Now come the growls and the offense--not so much at the memorial, but at the thought that the city was taking away constitutional rights.

Hopefully, this kind of taking offense will begin to disappear once the people get used to a more pluralistic public square, one that recognizes that, under the First Amendment, both secular monuments and religious monuments are legitimate in the public square of a diverse nation such as America is. The public square should recognize all of us: 1000 points of both secular and religious light, not merely 500 points of secular light.