http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=12065233&hl=5This is my response to the above story and ruling to a very misguided 10th Circuit Court of Appeals:
Dear Atheists:
You are offended by a cross on a roadside in a state that you don't live in that bears the symbol of a state agency. You are offended that you should be confronted with a "religious symbol" as you drive past at 75+ miles per hour. You are offended that there is no separation of church and state.
I am offended that you would dare to interfere with a memorial to officers that have given their LIVES so that you could be protected and served. I am offended that YOUR beliefs seem to be more important than the hundreds of THOUSANDS of people that knew and loved and respected these officers and the ultimate sacrifice that they paid, protecting and serving everyone, including YOU. I am offended that in the times we live in where the economy and immigration and natural disasters, foreign and domestic, are so much bigger and more important to humanity that YOU would chose to fight THIS battle. I am offended that you choose to believe that there is no higher power. Will I take YOU to court? No, because you are entitled to believe as you choose. Just as the THOUSANDS of us choose to believe that a cross, memorializing the site where these noble officers died PROTECTING AND SERVING their communities is an appropriate monument.
I pity you, that you have nothing better to do, no higher purpose in this world than to challenge a memorial to the dead that hurts you in no way, save for "offending" you. You offend me, and my family, who faithfully pass a memorial cross to our own fallen hero on a stretch of highway between here and there, where he died, PROTECTING AND SERVING his community.
God bless all the troopers and police officers and deputies that serve us and bless you, Mark Shurtleff that you will win this battle over the imbeciles that believe no one has the right to "offend" them.
