A CROSS IS A CROSS IS A CROSS

     Goaded by local and national Christian evangelical dominionist court rulings, and the surge by the evangelicals to claim the 'public square' a sacred place of their own, all the while dismissing The Others, this evangelical effort is steadfastly eroding the civil liberties of public school students in New Mexico public schools, especially in Las Cruces.

     Teachers passing religious-intent words for 'testifying' is one thing, but deeds and pictures are another.  Here you see the latest effort in the Onate High School, Las Cruces, New Mexico.  Juan Onate was the conquistador who, although he never had anything to do with Las Cruces, led the first permanent group of Catholic priests and colonists from Mexico to the Santa Fe, New Mexico, area.  For that, the reverence bestowed upon him by the New Mexico Catholic Church and its followers is nothing short of sainthood.  Even by the standards of the 16th Century (late 1500's), Onate was a butcher.

      One has to believe this building modification with its proselytizing intent was coordinated with the Las Cruces Board of Education, the Superintendent, and of course, the Principal.  This painting, with its permanent symbolic intent of proselytizing and claiming the school as Christian, is a clear violation of Las Cruces School District Policy 424.  The pictured artist is an employee at the school.

Photo courtesy of the Las Cruces Sun-News newspaper 8-3-2013.

     This new painting is on center-court of the Onate High School basketball court for testifying, claiming the school, and proselytizing non-Christian students.