Lake Elsinore

Calif. city torn by multiple fights over public crosses

By Kimberly Winston — March 11, 2014
(RNS) “They said they have to take that (cross) down,” local resident Doug Johnson told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. “But they didn’t say anything about putting another one up.”

Judge rejects California city’s religious war memorial

By Kimberly Winston — February 27, 2014
(RNS) On Thursday (Feb. 27), a U.S. district judge ruled that a granite monument depicting a soldier kneeling in prayer before a cross lacked “a secular purpose” and has “the unconstitutional effect” of endorsing religion over nonreligion.
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