(December 13, 2013 at 12:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Say goodbye to "free exercise". Maybe next activists can ban free speech.
Actually - there is NO problem with free exercise in this case
That clause refers to an individuals rite to practice their own religion - a monument is not a person. (For instance - it IS allowed at Arlington National Cemetery for the head stone to reflect the religion of the buried soldiers - since it is their headstone - not the governments's.
However - a monument of the government should not have any specific religious symbols because the government does not have the right to favor one religion over another - another part of that clause.