The cross: more than religion?

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan writing at The Immanent Frame: “Justices Kennedy, Alito, and Scalia argued that the cross, in the context of a war memorial, was not best described as sectarian. In the words of Justice Kennedy, ‘one Latin cross in the desert evokes far more than religion.’ What does he mean? What is ‘more than religion’? Is the ‘more’ America? Or is the ‘more’ humanity? Is the ‘more’ necessarily secular? Is it indeed more, or is it less? . . . Over the last thirty years or so, for a complex set of reasons—including, I think, fear of scientific naturalism, the hardening of political divisions, and the stakes involved in owning pieces of the cultural landscape—universalism has fallen on hard times. Judges cannot cope any better with this than the rest of us.”