The Freedom From Religion Foundation successfully persuaded a post office in Huntersville, N.C., to remove a Christian cross from behind a customer counter.
A local complainant noticed that the post office displayed a wooden, half-foot tall Latin cross behind its customer counter, on a prominent shelf, clearly viewed by all postal patrons. Senior Staff Attorney Rebecca Markert wrote to the Huntersville postmaster on March 16, 2012: “This cross display violates post office regulations and the U.S. Constitution and must be removed immediately.”
Markert pointed out that U.S. postal regulations prohibit the display of religious symbols, other than stamp art on postal property. She added that “no court of final resort has ever upheld the government’s permanent display of a Latin cross on public land as constitutional.”
The postmaster informed Markert on June 12 that “the cross has been removed.”
