"So: either everyone gets monuments, all together so as to be without favoritism, or no one does. It's that simple.

"No one does" is less expensive. "

Who cares about cost, I say let anyone who wants to buy property and build their monument on it, then give it to the public should be allowed to do this. I'm a firm believer in things like the wacky Watts tower. And I like it that the Koreas built a monument:
http://www.sanpedro.com/panoramas/korean_bell.htm

That it has gods of liberty and other gods does not bother me in the least.

Now, isn't this a religon:
http://www.godless.org/hasd/hnlsp.html
"HASD's strong support of science, atheism, materialism, evolution, human responsibility, intellectual freedom, and critical opinion of religions and other superstitions is a unique and, alas, somewhat less-expressed viewpoint of Humanism of late. We believe that, although humanity will survive in the coming centuries without adopting such a viewpoint, it will not survive well. We also believe it is precisely those qualities listed above that makes the Humanist voice both singular and worth listening to. We believe it is up to us as Humanists to have the insight, wisdom, and especially the courage to write our own future history and that of humanity as a whole. And we believe humanity should face the world with the spirit of curiosity, adventure, respect. and awareness, and willing let go of the comforting fairy-tales of religion and grasp the realities of the world that science shows us. "

Sounds like they got lots of beliefs, here.
Also they are even managed the typical bit about hating to other kinds of religons:
"We have a number of special interest groups, a number of liaisons to other humanist and atheist groups in San Diego county, a number of different humanist-oriented projects, and even our own website, www.godless.org (please see article below). We have supported the separation of church and state by holding a rally under the patently christian cross on Mt. Soledad in San Diego (our own Philip Paulson brought the suit against the city to have the cross removed)."

Now, they don't believe in a Christian God, but I think we should be open to even the strangest ideas that some religious people might have. They seem to want to worship and pray to cross which isn't there anymore. Shouldn't they be required to build their own cross in order to tear it down, so they have someplace to worship?