Has the wren chapel cross been “saved”

This editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch provides the paper’s verdict on the resolution of the controversy over the Wren Chapel cross at William & Mary. The college’s decision to return the cross to the chapel “can be called many things,” says the Times-Dispatch. “Surrender [by the college president] is the most accurate.”
Participants at our Forum are far from convinced, however. Bird of Paradise captures the prevailing sentiment when he wonders:

How in the name of rational objectivity, is it a

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