Public Lands, Bears Ears, Anti-religion Judiciary

From 2014 to 2018, attention has been on how much Utah land should be in a national monument, i.e. Bears Ears and Grand Staircase. No where did the discussion consider that religion is excluded on public lands. Simply put, when asked, the Judiciary has ordered the removal of crosses or anything religious on public lands.   What is that significance? Enormous. Western states are basically the mountain and pacific standard time zones. Federal lands are  1 in 10 acres to more than 8 in 10 acres. Not so in states in the central and eastern time zones. The U.S. General Services Administration lists the Federal Real Property Profile for 2004.

See http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/291-federal-lands-in-the-us The Federal government owns about 640 million acres.  States own some more, as do counties and cities.

The American Legion reports that a 40 foot tall cross stone memorial in Maryland, built just after the Great War (later known as World War One), was ordered destroyed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit as being on public land. The monument is known as the Bladensburg Cross or Peace Cross.

You can read more details at

http://www.burnpit.us/2018/03/federal-court-rules-bladensburg-cross-unconstitutional-tal-appeal-supreme-court

So if you like your monument, can you keep your monument? Well, not if it looks religious. No chapels, no temples, no grave stones. Is this the direction this country should take?