High Court to Decide if Town Must Allow New Age Monument

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High Court to Decide if Town Must Allow New Age Monument
By Pete Winn
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
April 03, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide next term whether a Utah city must allow a New Age religion that promotes pyramids, mummification, and sexual ecstasy to erect a monument to its beliefs on public property.

Justices agreed this week to hear a case about a Salt Lake City-based religion called Summum and whether the First Amendment allows the religion to memorialize its beliefs on a monument in a public park in Pleasant Grove, Utah.

Last year, the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a lower court decision forcing the city to let Summum place a monument to its "Seven Aphorisms" alongside a monument to the Ten Commandments, which had been donated to Pleasant Grove by the local Eagles Club in the 1950s.

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High Court to Decide if Town Must Allow New Age Monument -- 04/03/2008

Comments, thots, etc?

 

[All Else Failed]

Religion =/= public property.

 

[ssl]

Here we see the separation of church and state being the cause of the issue; the resolution is to kill everyone by pushing the red button.

The public place should not bear the memorial of any religion. If it bears the task of one, it should bear all. The smart thing is to not have any memorials in reference to religion.

But no, we cannot do that.
"We are a nation that believes in the Christian super-being, with religious tolerance."

Right. And now that you have our beautiful melting pot of diversity screwing you in the end, with other beliefs disrupting the status quo and the comfortable lives that were lived under the Christian auspices. (Is 'auspices' correct here?)

 

[Dana]

this is why religion is bunk...

 

[ssl]

I would agree with you Dana, however I might point out that it has been religion that has helped our society grow, technologically included. Overlooking the issues that religion has caused, I think religion has a place, but in its current position, it has too much influence upon things it should have no interest in.

 

[Pudding Time]

It's in the Constitution to allow freedom of religious expression. And this I'm ok with. It's when the government starts making laws in regards to religion, that I get pissy about.

I have no problem with it being on public property, as long as this government isn't endorsing this religion.

 

[Tim]

If this is being put on public property with public funds, then I say no... Having your tax dollars go to pay for a religious memorial is wrong since not everyone is part of that religious group...

I feel the same way for ALL religions... even Nativity scenes.

But if it's a privately funded project on private land... then there should be no discussion at all. Freedom of religion should protect their right to erect such a memorial.

 

[BadBoy@TheWheel]

If this is being put on public property with public funds, then I say no... Having your tax dollars go to pay for a religious memorial is wrong since not everyone is part of that religious group...

I feel the same way for ALL religions... even Nativity scenes.

But if it's a privately funded project on private land... then there should be no discussion at all. Freedom of religion should protect their right to erect such a memorial.

:homo:

Errr....Mr.Homo Well put Timo

 

[Pudding Time]

OK. If Public fund are used to pay for this, then I say that's wrong. If they were to pay for it themselves, then I have no problem with it being on public property.

But I believe I should clarify what I mean by public property, as they are parts of public property I would be against this monument being erected. I do not mean schools, as religion should not influence public education.

 

[Carthage]

I support the ten commandments on court grounds, so. Big Sigh. I can't rightfully oppose this.

Will someone please shoot me? I don't know how much longer I can live with myself.
Just kidding about the shooting me/living with myself thing. But seriously, I can't say I'm happy about my descison. Still, though, logic must prevail!, so...

 

[Tim]

I support the ten commandments on court grounds, so. Big Sigh. I can't rightfully oppose this.

Will someone please shoot me? I don't know how much longer I can live with myself.
Just kidding about the shooting me/living with myself thing. But seriously, I can't say I'm happy about my descison. Still, though, logic must prevail!, so...

And you are a Bush supporting Republican? :dunno

 

[Carthage]

And you are a Bush supporting Republican? :dunno

Exactly what about Bush's policy is illogical, and why is it?

 

[Tim]

Exactly what about Bush's policy is illogical, and why is it?

:surrender

You're right, I'm wrong, Bush is the best president in the last century...

 

[All Else Failed]

Exactly what about Bush's policy is illogical, and why is it?

Holy fuck, you're kidding, right?

I support the ten commandments on court grounds, so. Big Sigh. I can't rightfully oppose this.

Will someone please shoot me? I don't know how much longer I can live with myself.
Just kidding about the shooting me/living with myself thing. But seriously, I can't say I'm happy about my descison. Still, though, logic must prevail!, so...

Why? If you're the freedom loving person you are, you'd be cheering right now, no matter what religion it was.

 

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Why? If you're the freedom loving person you are, you'd be cheering right now, no matter what religion it was.

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IMO, anything having to do with ANY religious connotation should NOT be on public land.

Yes, we are freedom loving people but we have to use common sense here. Can you imagine what our parks, court house lawns, etc., would look like filled with the worshipful monuments of all the different religious sects in this country. Would be like a circus.

 

[All Else Failed]

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IMO, anything having to do with ANY religious connotation should NOT be on public land.

Yes, we are freedom loving people but we have to use common sense here. Can you imagine what our parks, court house lawns, etc., would look like filled with the worshipful monuments of all the different religious sects in this country. Would be like a circus.

thats what I think too, I was just referring to him.