Our Supreme Court has an interesting case to resolve.
The case involves the city of Pleasant Grove City, Utah which has in its town park a statue of the Ten Commandments; been there since 1971.
In come a religious group from Salt Lake City, Utah called SUMMUM. Founded in 1975 with a belief system based on the “THE SEVEN APHORISMS OF SUMMUM” which they claim was also given by god and brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses. Moses destroyed the Seven Aphorisms tablets when he saw that his people were not ready for them.
If you go online and read the Seven Aphorisms of Summum, you will understand why the people of Moses were not ready for these laws; you may even think that we (today) are not ready either.
Anyway, that is beside the point; the issue here is if a definitely religious symbol like the statue of the Ten Commandments is allowed in a “public” park (even though donated) why can another religious statue (also donated) from a “different” religion be denied space in the “public” park.
As you know, we have some pretty conservative justices on the current Supreme Court all of whom are pretty religious. Their duty is to interpret our Constitution and rule according to our Constitution but reality begs to differ.
Chief Justice John Roberts asked his juvenile questions like just because we have a Statue of Liberty, must we have a Statue of Despotism? Or, do we have to put a new face on Mt. Rushmore, just because a president asks for one? I told you he is juvenile.
Justice David Souter, older and wiser, asked how the Ten Commandment statue is allowed but under the same circumstances, the other one denied? Is it because of the different religious message and if so, does that not violate the First Amendment?
A lower court already said that if you accept one donated statue for the park, you must accept the other one also.
To overturn a lower court’s ruling usually requires some pretty heavy legal rationale and so I cannot wait till they submit their decision(s). I am just so glad a Democrat is in power and can or will be able to appoint a justice to the Supreme Court to balance it in the middle and not let it shift way to the Right.
The case involves the city of Pleasant Grove City, Utah which has in its town park a statue of the Ten Commandments; been there since 1971.
In come a religious group from Salt Lake City, Utah called SUMMUM. Founded in 1975 with a belief system based on the “THE SEVEN APHORISMS OF SUMMUM” which they claim was also given by god and brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses. Moses destroyed the Seven Aphorisms tablets when he saw that his people were not ready for them.
If you go online and read the Seven Aphorisms of Summum, you will understand why the people of Moses were not ready for these laws; you may even think that we (today) are not ready either.
Anyway, that is beside the point; the issue here is if a definitely religious symbol like the statue of the Ten Commandments is allowed in a “public” park (even though donated) why can another religious statue (also donated) from a “different” religion be denied space in the “public” park.
As you know, we have some pretty conservative justices on the current Supreme Court all of whom are pretty religious. Their duty is to interpret our Constitution and rule according to our Constitution but reality begs to differ.
Chief Justice John Roberts asked his juvenile questions like just because we have a Statue of Liberty, must we have a Statue of Despotism? Or, do we have to put a new face on Mt. Rushmore, just because a president asks for one? I told you he is juvenile.
Justice David Souter, older and wiser, asked how the Ten Commandment statue is allowed but under the same circumstances, the other one denied? Is it because of the different religious message and if so, does that not violate the First Amendment?
A lower court already said that if you accept one donated statue for the park, you must accept the other one also.
To overturn a lower court’s ruling usually requires some pretty heavy legal rationale and so I cannot wait till they submit their decision(s). I am just so glad a Democrat is in power and can or will be able to appoint a justice to the Supreme Court to balance it in the middle and not let it shift way to the Right.
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