If you’ve ever driven into Bladensburg, Maryland, you’ve likely seen the 40-foot-tall Peace Cross, which since 1922 has commemorated the residents of Prince George’s County that fought and died in World War I.

But now, reports WJLA, an atheist organization wants the cross removed:

[T]he American Humanist Association, a national organization that promotes a philosophy of values and equality for humanists, atheists and agnostics, wants the cross taken down. They say that having a religious symbol on land owned by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission violates the separation of church and state.

“It’s on government property and that sends a message that Christianity is preferred by the government,” Bill Burgess, the legal counsel for the American Humanist Association, said. “I’d like them to agree to just take it down.”

Veterans groups led by the American Legion are livid at the mere mention of the idea, saying that the cross merely serves as a memory of those who died in the Great War.

A similar battle raged a few years ago in the Mojave Desert, where a cross also memorialized soldiers who died in World War I. In 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court eventually allowed the cross to stay, but there was a wrinkle—the land on which the cross stood was handed over to a private owner, in exchange for a nearby plot of land he owned. A similar battle is heating up over a cross located on a federal memorial on Mt. Soledad in San Diego, Calif.

The American Humanist Association has given two weeks for the cross to be removed before it takes its complaints to court.