A judge should toss out a lawsuit by a national atheists group seeking
to stop the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the
wreckage of the World Trade Center, lawyers for the operators of the
Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero say.
The lawyers said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on
Monday that the 17-foot-tall beam will be displayed as a historical
object because it tells part of the story of the rescue and recovery
effort after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which destroyed the
twin towers and killed thousands of people.
They said the display of the cross among 1,000 artifacts, photos, oral
histories and videos is no different from the showing of hundreds of
religious paintings routinely displayed at government-supported art
museums.
The nonprofit group American Atheists sued the National September 11
Memorial & Museum's operators last year, saying the beam's display
would be unconstitutional. A message left with a lawyer for the group
was not immediately returned Wednesday.
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