Good faith effort

Will the ACLU ban all phrases that have even a hint of religiousity? Apparently not yet.
See this from the Weekly Standard:
"City of Angels
On Friday, December 17, two copies of Los Angeles County's 47-year-old official seal--the ones hanging on the front wall of its Board of Supervisors hearing room--were quietly covered over with temporary stick-um decals featuring a newly designed logo the county has chosen as a permanent replacement. What will eventually be a $700,000 county-wide reinstallation project got started back in May when the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sent the Board of Supervisors a formal letter of complaint about the original seal, one minor iconographic element of which was a cross. The old seal was thus unconstitutionally Christian, the organization argued. And the supervisors--by a subsequent series of 3-2 votes--agreed.
Here's the thing, though: By the time the Board of Supervisors got back to work on Monday morning, December 20, the covered-over cross had somehow made itself clearly visible again, right through the stick-um decal's paper fabric. "It's a Christmas miracle," said a spokesman for supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, one of the Board's two replacement-project opponents. Antonovich's colleague, supervisor Don Knabe, agreed: "It is very symbolic that the cross has reappeared on a new seal directly above the new icon of [the San Gabriel] mission, which does not have a cross."
Nah, "I'm pretty sure it's a graphics problem," explained Tom Tindall, a general manager of the county's Internal Services Department. Either way, ACLU spokeswoman Elizabeth Brennan tells the Los Angeles Daily News that it's unfortunate the cover-over effort seems to have failed. "But they've made a good-faith effort," at least.
That "good-faith effort" part all by itself makes the whole story worthwhile, don't you think?"

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/
000/005/072ijrxf.asp?pg=2
emphasis mine.