A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR TOURISTS

Near the terminus of Interstate 10 at the southwest border with Arizona is a city, Lordsburg, that Robert Julyan in his The Place Names of New Mexico discarded the other suppositions to the name and decided "most likely" it was named after the railroad engineer, Delbert Lord, who was the chief engineer during construction.  Julyan makes no religious reference to the adopted name or to those possibilities of the name. Those other name references listed people.  Not deities.

It now appears that the name has been taken to heart by some government officials and allowed the Christian defied-modification of the State's Zia symbol to illegally and insultingly adorn the north and south entrance doors of the only state/federal government-owned New Mexico Tourist Center/Rest Stop in Lordsburg.

These doors are a prime example of how Christians' hegemony ("Our crosses are more important to us than your feelings.') combines with public property to promote their Christian beliefs of superiority.  Like the reds of the rubies and garnets worn on the brocades of the Church, these blood-colored Christian crosses represent the blood of Jesus and shockingly proselytize the unsuspecting travelers going east and west.