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Article: Los Angeles County supervisors faced with a lawsuit to remove a tiny gold cross from the county seal, have voted to remove it, but the Roman goddess Pomona will stay.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- June 29, 2004
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Los Angeles County supervisors faced with a lawsuit to remove a tiny gold cross from the county seal, have voted to remove it, but the Roman goddess Pomona will stay. County supervisors voted June 1 to remove the cross, which was incorporated into the seal's original 1957 design to represent the Catholic missions founded by Jesuit missionaries. The American Civil Liberties Union had said the cross represented an "impermissible endorsement of Christianity" and was "unconstitutional" as a violation of the separation of church and state, "We realize this is not the most ...