Safe For Now

Opinion Journal:

The 29-foot cross atop the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego is safe, for now, from the atheist litigant who wants it torn down. Congress passed legislation this summer to make the local memorial a national one, using the federal government's eminent-domain power to buy the land on which it sits. And this week President Bush approved the purchase. In effect, his action should move the cross out of reach of the California law that has been wielded to ban it and under the protection of the First Amendment.

Those who know me well know that I'm neither religious nor anti-religious.

I do know, though, that if God were shopping for real estate on the North American continent, he'd be looking in the San Diego area.