A broad majority of the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that an enormous Christian cross standing on public land, and funded by public money, does not violate the Constitution’s separation of church and state. In their written opinions, both for and against the ruling, most of the justices framed the dispute in relatively neutral terms. Justice Neil Gorsuch did not.

“The American Humanist Association [AHA] wants a federal court to order the destruction of a 94-year-old war memorial because its members are offended,” Gorsuch wrote in his concurring opinion, referring to the secular group that challenged the cross. From there, he treated their arguments with clear disdain.

“The [AHA] claims that its members ‘regularly’ come into ‘unwelcome direct contact’ with a World War I memorial cross in Bladensburg, Maryland ‘while driving in the area,’” he wrote, quoting from the group’s brief. “And this, the [AHA] suggests, is enough to allow it to insist on a federal judicial decree ordering the memorial’s removal. Maybe, the [AHA] concedes, others who are less offended lack standing to sue. Maybe others still who are equally affected but who come into contact with the memorial too infrequently lack standing as well. But, the [AHA] assures us, its members are offended enough—and with sufficient frequency—that they may sue.”

Gorsuch, whose opinion was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, sounds almost offended that anyone was offended. But it’s an important question for the court to consider: Who gets to be offended by government-funded displays of religion, and who doesn’t?

The 40-foot-tall concrete cross rises amid a busy roundabout in Bladensburg, Maryland. Local leaders built it in 1925 as a monument to soldiers who died in World War I. A local American Legion chapter owned and maintained the monument until 1961, when it donated the cross and the land underneath it to a local planning commission. Maryland today uses taxpayer dollars to provide for the cross’ upkeep.