An attorney tells OneNewsNow that a Texas atheist has dropped his lawsuit over a Corpus Christi cross.

Atheist protester Patrick Greene has "ended his crusade" against plans to erect the cross, says attorney Jeremy Dys.

Greene opposes the 210-foot cross and was upset when the mayor and city councilmen attended a Sunday dedication ceremony.

OneNewsNow reported in a March 18 story that the Corpus Christi Cross Project plans to erect the largest cross in the Western Hemisphere.

The public officials, self-professed Christians, attended a ceremony to dedicate the site.

Dys, an attorney for First Liberty Institute, says Greene has also abandoned his efforts to use the court to "admonish" the city officials.

"Look, you cannot use the legal system simply to protest something you don't like," says Dys, who stressed to OneNewsNow in the previous story that public officials have the legal right to attend a religious event.