Fallout From Court Ruling

With the blessings of judges who are on the spiritual payroll of the City of Las Cruces, the City continues to lean in the harness as it presses on to the 20th Century with its burden of religious prejudice slowing its progress away from moral bankruptcy.

The monument to evangelical pride, the Las Cruces City Hall, has a cute little plaque, across the lobby from the picture of God from the Sistine Chapel, stating "Here they saw a cross for which Las Cruces was named." The City's defense attorney presenting the City's claim to the use of crosses, standing before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, claimed "they saw a cross," referring to the alleged miracle the first Spanish explorers saw. There are no documents.

The official United States Army website for White Sands Missile Range outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico, carries a story the Army refuses to remove, provided by evangelicals in the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce. Under the history of Dona Ana County, Section 5, it says: "There are many stories [all fictional] of the origin of the name 'Las Cruces.' One generally presumed true tells of the first European who came north over the route later named Camino Real. The European found three graves marked with crosses. There was no clue as to who was buried or who had marked them with Christian crosses in a land inhabited only by heathens. The uncanny find raised other questions-From where did the Christians come? Did one survive to bury the dead? Where did the survivor go?"

Note: The local "Euro-Americans" who wrote this fakelore use "European" instead of the actual 'Spaniard' to discredit the origin of the first explorers.

While the dear reader may be shaking their head at this 'crosses on the trail,' another wonderment is appearing. The fallout from the Court's ruling that the three Latin crosses used by the City of Las Cruces are not religious and the three Latin crosses on the Las Cruces Public Schools stadium "don't look like Calvary.", the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department is changing the shoulder patches on the deputies to show three Latin crosses at the base of the local mountain range.