L.A. County won't appeal ruling striking cross from county seal
Abby Sewell
... In April, a federal court judge sided with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and a group of religious leaders and scholars of various faiths who sued the county over the addition of a cross to the depiction of the San Gabriel Mission on the seal. The plaintiffs argued that the design unconstitutionally favored Christianity over other religions.
A divided Board of Supervisors voted in 2014 to reinstate a cross on the seal. Ten years earlier, the county had redesigned the seal to remove a cross that was shown floating above the Hollywood Bowl, after being threatened with a similar lawsuit.
At that time, there was no cross atop the real San Gabriel Mission; it had gone missing during earthquake retrofitting. The cross was later restored on top of the building.
Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich and Don Knabe argued that reinstating the cross on the depiction of the mission on the seal was necessary for historical and architectural accuracy ...
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-county-seal-vote-20160621-snap-story.html
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with whether one of California's several missions has a cross above it in real life?
On the one hand, they can't put a cross on the county seal. On the other hand, taxpayers, via the federal government, finance the missions as historic sites. No inconsistency there, I'm sure. 
