Folks, the lines through the new shield also form a cross. Maybe a little less obvious but still a cross.
But it's deniable that it's a cross when the ACLU threatens to sue. The cotton cross is not deniable. Can you see the difference?
From the point of view of those who instigated the "change", that's just a pair of intersecting perpendicular lines. Where the Latin cross is easily identified as a Christian symbol, the *Greek* cross (four equal length arms) is not, at least in Texas.