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Court upholds removal of father’s roadside cross

March 30, 2021

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CWN Editor's Note: Stephen Kelly placed a cross alongside US Highway 12 in Montana in memory of his stepson. After the state transportation department removed the cross, Kelly filed suit, alleging his religious freedom was infringed. A court upheld the cross’s removal from government land, on the grounds that “the spiritual cross constituted government speech.”

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