A federal judge has blocked plans to build a war memorial at a minor league baseball stadium in California on the ground it would unconstitutionally endorse a religion.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson of the Central District of California came in a lawsuit filed on May 30 by the American Humanist Association, which advocates for the separation of church and state. The organization objected to plans to depict a soldier kneeling in prayer before a tombstone in the shape of a Christian cross.
