The Summum faith wins twice today in the Tenth Circuit

Will Linden wlinden at panix.com
Fri Apr 20 13:20:03 PDT 2007


Questions for consideration: Would any of the rulings have been different 
if it had been a Buddhist organization wanting to create a monument to the 
Four Noble Truths?


At 02:37 PM 4/19/07 +0300, you wrote:

>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?


PLEASE, no cracks about erecting statues!

   But the "we would have to include all of them argument" recalls my 
previous post, which failed to draw any comments, about the Impaler and his 
plank to
"erect the "Wall of Religious
Beliefs" in the Capital. This wall will have everything
from the Wiccan Rede to the 10 Commandments."

So, aside from the logistical problems of "including all of them", is this 
project considered sufficiently nondiscriminatory? Or would it be assailed 
as an establishment of "religion", as opposed to irreligion? Or does the 
aim of extolling religious freedom constitute an overriding secular purpose?




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