Las Cruces Pride: A Symbol of Exclusion and False Pride

Since the use of the Trinity crosses by the government of the City of Las Cruces was challenged as being an illegal imposition on the civil liberties of citizens, those rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the New Mexico Constitution, the City Council and the Dona Ana County Commissioners have been running scared.

The Christian symbol of love has become an in-your-face flaunting of religious superiority representing a government-sponsored disdain for non-believers and non-Christians in the community. Many citizens are afraid to speak up when they know it's wrong.

The points on the sunburst reflect chapters of the Gospel of John, the verse reference depends on the City Department. The police use 12-points on their patrol cars for Chapter 12.34. On the police uniforms is the 20-point sunburst with floating Trinity crosses. The newer adopted 20-points if for John 20 - the Resurrection.

The Dona Ana County Commissioner showed their support for the problem the City got itself in for using government funds to proselytize. The County added a dripping yellow cross to the County seal and now claim it represents the local sunshine.

The City has purposefully instituted a campaign to get the Trinity crosses symbol on every item possible in every Department. A license plate for Las Cruces has been approved by Governor Richardson and his faithful gang in Santa Fe. Only those who live in the neighborly City Limits can buy the plate, although about 60,000 people have an address listed as 'Las Cruces.' The additional $25 cost is supposed to go the Recreational Department which is known for its activities to proselytize the youth of the city.

It's good to have the license plate so citizens and visitors will be forewarned as to the prejudice of the proud owners.

Lost Soul

Some communities have a soul. You can feel it when you drive into the communities. You can see it in the faces. You can see the pride in the way the people carry themselves. You can see it in how the citizens treat one another. How all are included, or excluded.

What kills the soul of a community? Hate. Disdain for the 'others.' Disdain for your neighbors. Exclusivity related to a religion. False pride. Disrespect toward others. Silence in the face of evil. Hate is evil.

All you have to do is read the Las Cruces Sun-News with its daily deaths at the hands of citizens by way of love and jealousy and alcohol, gang rivalries, child-molesters, and the occasional death at the hands of a church-blessed police.

Sunny skies cannot hide the ongoing City Hall-organized disdain for non-Christians, and even the local Christians. All citizens who may want to observe by sitting or those addressing the City Council will do so standing before an Inquisitional dais resplendent with the large Christian crosses of the Trinity on the back wall. The public podium has its own smaller version of the Christian crosses. The City Councilors look at the crosses, not the citizen speaking. Unbelieving readers should check http://www.las-cruces.org/. And the City's own TV channel for the promotion of religion.

The dangling of Christian crosses or symbols made from them on every piece of public property is truly insulting. But those dedicated evangelicals in the City government wear their hate with pride and their concern of others is minuscule.

The City's soul is lost. It will continue to be lost as long as hate and disdain for others is the rule. Some churches believe the human soul belongs to those churches; some people believe their soul belongs to whatever god they ascribe to or to nature; and some people do not believe in a 'soul.'

Whatever the belief about human souls is, it is personal. The soul of a city belongs to no religion or deity as some would want. The soul of a city belongs to the people of that city to make it viable or not. So far, the city of Las Cruces has chosen to selfishly discard the idea of viability.

Fidelity to the Law

"Fidelity to the Law." Faithful loyalty. Isn't that such a quaint idea? Not so in the minds of the ordinary citizen. Yet, foreign to the likes of the religiously pompous Judge Robert J. Brack and his minion, magistrate Judge Lourdes Martinez. Both swore an allegiance to their duties as federal judges. Surely they knew they were lying when they raised their hand and swore to protect the Constitutional rights of the people. Charlatans of the lowest order and they are still on the bench.

Las Cruces: Shameful silence

The leading factions of government-involved promoters of Christian privilege in Las Cruces have reveled in the shameful rulings against the First Amendment civil liberties by Federal District Court of Las Cruces Judge Robert Brack and his minion, federal Magistrate Lourdes Martinez.
These two judges would better serve the public in traffic court, or no court, well away from deciding the rights of the people guaranteed by the First Amendment. They lied.

The triad of the City of Las Cruces, the private Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce, and the Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education, frolic under their blanket of prejudice in their status quo bed. Not to go unrecognized is the infected degreed influence from the various supporting departments of the New Mexico State University that mockingly promote 'multiculturalism' but aid and abet the LCPS and the others. Also, not to be left out are the religious factions that dictate .... . Or those who make decisions based on the 'wink and nod' of what they think their religious leaders want them to do.

The shameful silence of citizens and pulpits is a blight on the city as their silence encourages the promotion of hateful disdain toward others. There is no salvation from hate. The outcome of the lawsuits for justice was set from the beginning by the triad. Their silence proves it. As part of the plan, Judge Lourdes Martinez, in partnership with the defense lawyer, William Babington, 'lost' the Pretrial Order (PTO) for two years and for those two years denied any knowledge of her wrongdoing. Mental reservation? Job security?

Only when Judge Brack's personal Clerk of the Court, Bernadette Howell retired, did the PTO reappear.

One of the unspoken factors that influence the actions of the judges was them obviously putting their religion before their oath of office and thereby mocking the U. S. Constitution they are bound by. When judges lie and illegally promote their religion in the courthouse, chambers and courtrooms, then are relieved of their crimes by outside religious factions, only to return to their ways after penitence, our secular justice is doomed. The federal courthouse is not a church!

When citizens end up in any court for any reason, there should be no doubt that justice will be served. There have been cases where honest judges have seen a conflict between their personal beliefs or their experience and the law and recused themselves. When that happens Justice is served. Justice belongs to the people, not the four-flushers pretending to be judges.

Suffer the little children

As most of you know, but many just don't want to think about it, the Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS) Board of Education continues its involvement in introducing the Christian religion into the schools. The 'funny' thing is the summer Church (Bible) Camp theme that has been around for years. It's Summer! It's Church (Bible) Camp time!

Now, after being exposed last summer of sponsoring a NASA program for elementary school children with the New Mexico State University Education Department at an evangelical church, the LCPS is at it again. The NMSU Education Department lied about the location being a church and the use reasoning was that it was 'free.' An LCPS policy is that its programs will be held at public school sites for free.

There is an excellent science program named Mad Science that introduces school children to various aspects of science beginning in the elementary schools. From every thing I can tell, there is no religious involvement in the programs, just science. No 'intelligent design.'

Through an obvious backdoor maneuver LCPS has joined El Paso ISD, Texas, to promote various programs of the Mad Science at exclusionary locations - one country club in El Paso; two at churches. One church is a Baptist church in El Paso, the other church is the evangelical Mesilla Valley Christian School (MVCS) in Las Cruces.

All three of the locations are exclusionary and totally inappropriate for 'public' education of children and for programs supposedly for science. The usual programs at the Baptist church are unknown at this time, but an experienced guess would categorize it as 'evangelical.' The Mesilla Valley Christian School is well-known for its bible-based evangelical programs and is decorated inside with religious themes for proselytizing. A very strange place to hold 'public' school science programs.

It is my understanding that MVCS is a promoter of the 'intelligent design' theme. If so, there is a serious conflict about to happen.

Bombs Away!

The City of Contradictions, Las Cruces, continues to bombard the public with its governmental proselytizing. A look at this week's weekly The Bulletin v. the daily Sun-News reveals the favorite place to advertise large 'public' notices of the City. The private Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce that is allowed to represent the City, actually has a faith-based strangle-hold grip on the cultural development of the City. The Chamber of Commerce has its own section regularly in The Bulletin, partly to tout its group of Conquistadors who attend ribbon-cuttings wearing blazers with a patch showing the Spanish standard bearer of Christianity, Onate, and the three Trinity crosses.

The City continues its seemingly innocuous mailing campaign to promote Christianity. One of the peculiarities is the mailings advertising the Branigan Culture Center museum displays. There are no Trinity crosses on the post cards, but just wait until you get to the museum. The gauntlet of Trinity crosses and the 1949 plaque that started it all greet the unwary visitor. The inside permanent display on the 'history' of Las Cruces reveals the lies of proselytizing.

The Nine's of Las Cruces

The City of Las Cruces has a new edition of the continuing governmental proselytizing program. The City encourages businesses and citizens to promote and display any and all versions of the Latin Trinity crosses produced by the City. The latest effort is a thinly disguised play on the old sign seen on waste baskets in various cities: "Keep your City (Park) clean."

Throughout the world over the centuries religions and cultures have used codes in writings, pictures, and signs, mainly to keep their secrets just for themselves. Las Cruces is rife with government signs with double meanings displayed by the signage seen on the streets. The Nine's I reference is the number of letters of the words that give an accurate portrayal of the true spirit of Las Cruces: lascruces, christian, prejudice, sectarian, beautiful, exclusion, etc.

The new signage reads "Keep Las Cruces Beautiful" with its ubiquitous Latin crosses where the sun should be over the mountains. Here the crosses' presentation represents 'son' as in 'son of God.' At the public Camino Real Middle School you see the above sign. The Las Cruces Public Schools winks at using the crosses and allowing them on School District properties. An insurance company on a main street is using the emblem on their median upkeep sign. The Knights of Columbus have stepped forward with an unusually large median upkeep sign advertising themselves with the emblem. The City is busy placing the signs on poles around the city, mainly near schools and other high traffic areas.

A visit to Las Cruces will show any observant visitor that the signs are a joke. The City Council and and the County Commissioners have allowed the degradation of the area by having no plan for the protection from over-building. To cover their tracks, the workers scurry about putting up more crosses.