The following comes from a Jan. 2 story in the BizPacReview.com.
A plan to include a cross to the county seal of Los Angeles County is starting another legal battle over religion in the City of Angels.
Two county supervisors argue that the portion of the seal that includes the San Gabriel Mission, considered the founding city of Los Angeles County, is incomplete without a cross.
The county seal used to have a cross, representing the crucial role of the Catholic Church in pioneering the state, but it was removed under threat of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit in 2004. The ACLU is threatening to sue again.
“This thinly veiled attempt to smuggle the cross into the seal will fool no one; it will reopen the debate about the separation of church and state … and risk the lawsuit and liability supervisors once wisely avoided,” ACLU of Southern California Executive Director Hector Villagra wrote in an email, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
In other words, “we bullied you once, we’ll bully you again.”
As usual, the ACLU prefers political correctness to historical accuracy, but even by those standards the argument is lame.
This is California – where every other city’s name starts with the word “San,” or “Santa” (including the capital), where two Major League Baseball teams are called the “Padres” and the “Angels.” Religious references aren’t exactly revolutionary.
Arguing that a religious image in a county seal is some “veiled attempt” to mingle church and state — in a place called Los Angeles County, no less — isn’t just a-historical, it’s ludicrous.
And with California the deepest blue of the deep-blue states, a virtual poster child for every lefty cause in the country from Obamacare to immigration, gay marriage and legal marijuana, the lefties at the ACLU should be able to rest easy.
Libs have been making the Golden State a basket case for decades, the Los Angeles County seal isn’t going to stop them now.
They still have Jerry Brown.
To read the original story, click here.
Once again, the ACLU proves that they are a Left Wing Hate Group!
Go away those who would steal our heritage. Begone! If the city of Pomona can have a pagan goddess on its seal, leave the cross on ours.
Pamona is appropriate for LA though, as she is the goddess of fruits and nuts.
Fruits and nuts are very appropriate for Taxi Fornia!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
I actually like the addition of the Mission — not sure what the “rainbow” thing is under the other version, right under the cross. Not what the stars are for.
Hollywood Bowl, perhaps — and the “stars” that Hollywood is famous for?
It’s nice they included the Mission San Gabriel — go, Church!!! :)
Place a very large CROSS back in the seal!!!
Has Archbishop Gomez said anything?
ed,
You have got to be kidding!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
This is a good commentary. The author is right to point out that Catholicism is a central part of the California’s heritage, as the state’s city names indicate. To insist on taking a cross off of a depiction of a mission strikes me as almost paranoid. And–as the author points out–the likelihood that California will descend into unrestrained religiosity is quite small.
Thanks to California Catholic for passing this piece on to us.
So the county of Los Angeles and their Christian heritage are to be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness? Again?! The ACLU used to be an organization that protected people and their rights. They are now the poster child for taking away the rights of freedom from religious persecution. When is someone going to sue THEM?
I note that the ACLU has not objected to the Freemason symbols on the upper left of the City seal. It was a great insult when they took our Cross away, with little resistance from the parishes.