Cross on County Seal Upheld Under New Supreme Court Precedent (2)

A Pennsylvania county can continue to display a memorial cross on its seal, a federal appeals court ruled in the first test of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent decision on the role of religion in a pluralistic society.

The unanimous ruling Aug. 8 by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found that the Lehigh County seal didn’t violate the Constitution’s prohibition against government endorsement of religion.

Adopted 75 years ago, the seal includes the cross in the center surrounded by nearly a dozen secular symbols of historical, patriotic, cultural, and economic significance ...