{"id":5622,"date":"2011-08-08T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2011-08-07T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T03:11:07","slug":"washington-post-rabbi-says-ground-zero-cross-should-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/washington-post-rabbi-says-ground-zero-cross-should-stay","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Rabbi says Ground Zero cross should stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Ground Zero is a graveyard,” writes Rabbi David Wolpe in the Washington Post<\/em>‘s On Faith section. “Yes, it is a national site and a place of competing interests, and a reminder of a peril facing our country and the world. But it is also a place where many people died and left no remains to be buried elsewhere. And just as a military cemetery is marked, in the poet\u2019s words, by ‘crosses row on row’ so should a cross stand at this sacred place.<\/p>\n

“The objections are more petulant than principled. As I argued with my cohort on ABC\u2019s ‘the God Squad,’ Father Edward Beck, this is about commemoration and a declaration of who we are as a nation. Religious symbols are indeed part of our national identity. Barring them from this place which bears national significance is doing violence to our history and character.<\/p>\n

“We are not only Christian, to be sure. There will be other religious markers there, as there should be. The desire to have a cross is about anguish and hope, not imperialism. Those who find religion essentially objectionable will object to this as well. But that disgruntled minority should not dictate policy. 9\/11 families have come out in favor of the cross. The nuisance suits of those who would scrub transcendence from our landscape deserve dismissal.”<\/p>\n

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