I live in the area..
They've been fighting over this for years. These people make me SO mad.. I want to smack them around and tell them that if the cross offends them, don't freaking look at it. How hard is that?
There was a similar fight over a cross on top of Mt. Helix, south of Mt. Soledad. I don't recall how that one came out but the cross is still there.
I'm so glad the cross will remain as well.
Now if we can just get "December Nights" or whatever they're calling it now changed back to "Christmas on the Prado".
..oh yeah, and I'm not even religious (agnostic).
I've been reading all the stuff about the crosses, and I think I have a solution. Since most Americans are Christian, and we only have a few mountains with crosses...and since atheist believe in nothing, and we have more mountains with nothing on them....what we need is more crosses on more mountains. Would that settle the arguments?
I didn't even know they weren't calling it Christmas on the Prado anymore... :::sigh:::
IIRC last years "December Nights" did not recieve enough money so it was cancelled. Many said it was because of the name change from "Christmas on the Prado."