NEW YORK (ChristianPost) The Mayor of New York City is defending the 9/11 cross at the World Trade Center.

Michael Bloomberg has been named in a lawsuit filed by a group of atheists seeking to remove the World Trade Center Cross from a memorial commemorating those who died in the September 11 attacks. The New York City Mayor says religious symbols should be allowed at the 9/11 museum. “In a museum, you want to show things that impacted people’s behavior back then even if you don’t think it was right. It’s history. Museums are for history and to teach people by example…This is what people did after September 11.”

The World Trade Center cross, made up of two intersecting steel beams, was found intact in the rubble of the attacks and was moved from the side of St Peters Church in lower Manhattan to the 9/11 memorial.