Patch Readers Sound Off about Camp Pendleton Cross (Poll)

A legal team might decide as early as this week if a newly-erected memorial cross will be allowed on Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps Installations West spokeswoman said.

The 13-foot cross was installed without the consent of Camp Pendleton officials in honor of four fallen Marines on Veterans Day. Members of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers demanded it be taken down.

A Facebook page in support of the cross has recently popped up and now has more than 200 members. On Patch, a reader wrote a letter .

Readers on a Patch poll have, so far, voted in favor of taking the cross down. (Readers can continue to vote in that same poll below.)

, however, were mostly in favor of the cross. Here are the highlights.

 said: "It seems kind of insulting to put up an in-your-face, overlooking the camp memorial to commemorate only the Christian Marines who were lost."

 said: "The United States of America was founded upon Christianity. I'm tired of the right to be a christian being stripped away by other religions."

 said: "The cross is a symbol people.....it doesn't represent Christians exclusively; it is a symbol of unification."

said: "I am "heart-sick" to think that American citizens would stoop so low as to want this cross removed. What must God think about the people of this country? I guess we are destined to end up like all the other countries who have obliterated Him from their lives and society."

What do you think? Tell us in the comments and feel free to write a letter to the editor by sending it to daniel.woolfolk@patch.com. Please keep it under 500 words, include your name and city of residence. They are subject to editing.

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