County restores cross to seal, ACLU goes Dracula By Rees Lloyd January 10, 2014
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which represents a population greater than a number of states, has voted 3-2 to restore the cross to the San Gabriel Mission church on the L.A. County seal to accurately depict the Mission, which now appears on the county seal without its cross.
he motion, filed by Supervisor Michael Antonovich, a U.S. Army veteran and a member of the American Legion, and Supervisor Don Knabe (both Republicans) was supported by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, a political liberal who once headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in L.A. and was once a member of the Board of the ACLU of Southern California. Supervisors Zev Zarovslosky and Gloria Molina, the other two liberal Democrats on the five-member board, voted against the motion, as reported by the L.A. Times.
Attorney Peter Eliasberg of the ACLU, which reacts like Dracula to the sight of a cross and has become the intolerant Taliban of American progressive liberal secularism, immediately threatened to sue, to no one’s surprise.
Eliasberg is the ACLU attorney who spent 10 years fanatically suing to destroy the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial cross. One has to drive to that remote desert cross honoring veterans to be offended by it – the cross is bolted atop a rock outcrop some 12 miles off the highway on a two-lane desert road. But that didn’t deter Eliasberg and the ACLU secular extremists from a decade of litigation trying to destroy it, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alas, the cross-destroying crusader Eliasberg then made a fool of himself before the Supreme Court when he made a misleading misrepresentation about the memorial in response to a question from Chief Justice Roberts. Eliasberg was later embarrassingly admonished by Roberts during oral argument for Eliasberg’s misrepresentation to the Court when staff presented the chief justice with the true facts pertaining to his question.
The Supreme Court ultimately rejected the ACLU’s arguments. The cross honoring veterans has been restored to the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial. However, possessed of massive amounts of chutzpah if not tolerance for public expression of America’s religious history, the secular extremist ACLU continues into its 24th year of litigation to destroy the cross honoring veterans at the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial.
Now, Eliasberg and the ACLU threaten to sue Los Angeles County for putting the cross back on the Mission church, just as that Mission again appears in real life. That is, the ACLU is contending that the depiction of the Mission as it actually exists must be falsified by the County in order not to violate the Establishment of Religion Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.