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Visitors earlier this year walk around the 40-foot Maryland Peace Cross dedicated to World War I soldiers in Bladensburg, Md.

Visitors earlier this year walk around the 40-foot Maryland Peace Cross dedicated to World War I soldiers in Bladensburg, Md.

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U.S. Supreme Court upholds Bladensburg Peace Cross

A 40-foot-tall cross-shaped war memorial standing on public land in Maryland does not represent an impermissible government endorsement of religion, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a major decision testing the boundaries of the federal Constitution’s separation of church and state.