Editing Cross burning (section)

==Legal position in the United States==
In 2003, the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] invoked a stage adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's ''[[The Lady of the Lake (poem)|The Lady of the Lake]]'' in its ''[[Virginia v. Black]]'' decision as an example of a display of cross burning that was not [[intention (criminal law)|intended]] "to intimidate a person or group of persons" when they struck down a Virginia statute that included the language "Any such burning of a cross shall be ''[[prima facie]]'' evidence of an intent to intimidate a person or group of persons" because it ''presumes'' that the "intent [is] to intimidate."<ref>Erwin Chemerinsky. [https://books.google.com/books?id=arN7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 The First Amendment], Wolters Kluwer.</ref>