The Summum faith wins twice today in the Tenth Circuit

[Susan Freiman]

So the next step is a monument of an erect phallus next to the image of 
the two tablets of the ten commandments?  Then what about equal rights 
for the women?

I see an item for The Onion here.

Susan

Ed Brayton wrote:
> I wrote about this today after seeing it on Howard Friedman's blog. 
> What jumps out at me is the lengths the two cities, particularly 
> Duchesne City, went to in order to preserve exclusive access for their 
> own preferred religion to have such monuments. I hope we can all at 
> least agree that if you're going to allow such monuments to go up on 
> public property, allowing only one religion to place such monuments on 
> public property and no other religion is a clear establishment clause 
> violation.
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> Ed Brayton
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> **The Summum faith wins twice today in the Tenth Circuit:** Summum -- 
> a religion that supports both mummification 
> <http://www.summum.us/mummification/> and masturbation 
> <http://www.sexualecstasy.org/divinemasturbation.php> -- had the 
> brilliant idea to approach towns in Utah that displayed Ten 
> Commandments monuments to ask for "equal time" to display monuments to 
> the Seven Aphorisms of Summum 
> <http://www.summum.us/philosophy/principles.shtml>.
>
> Pleasant Grove, Utah simply said "no" in response to the request, and 
> today a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for 
> the Tenth Circuit <http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/> directs the entry of 
> a preliminary injunction requiring the municipality to allow the 
> display of the Summum monument. You can access the ruling at this link 
> <http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/06/06-4057.pdf>.
>
> Duchesne City, Utah was equally unenthusiastic about the prospect of a 
> Summum monument, but instead of merely saying "no" the municipality 
> thought it would be beneficial to transfer its Ten Commandments 
> monument and the patch of public parkland on which it resides to 
> private ownership. Duchesne's actions make this case a bit more 
> complicated, but the Tenth Circuit today holds that Duchesne is not 
> necessarily absolved of liability on Summum's claim for injunctive 
> relief. You can access the ruling at this link 
> <http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/05/05-4162.pdf>.
>
> In press coverage of today's rulings, The Salt Lake Tribune provides a 
> news update headlined "'Seven Aphorisms' equal to 10 Commandments, 
> appeals court rules <http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5688321>."
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> And two Saturdays ago, The Deseret Morning News published articles 
> headlined "Thou shalt not ... underestimate impact of the Ten 
> Commandments 
> <http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660209584,00.html>" and 
> "Displays a source of friction 
> <http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660209598,00.html>."
> Posted at 10:50 PM <http://howappealing.law.com/041707.html#024368>by 
> Howard Bashman <mailto:appellateblog at hotmail.com>
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