Court rules for Utah city in religious marker case

[ZombieHorde]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that a small religious group cannot force a city in Utah to place a granite marker in a local park that already is home to a Ten Commandments display.

In a case involving the Salt Lake City-based Summum, the court said that governments can decide what to display in a public park without running afoul of the First Amendment.

Pleasant Grove City, Utah, rejected the group's marker, prompting a federal lawsuit that argued that a city can't allow some private donations of displays in its public park and reject others. The federal appeals court in Denver agreed.

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[foxfeet]

1. What do we expect from this SCOTUS?

This is clearly favoritism toward mainstream religions in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Alito's tortured logic argues that monuments are a special case of free speech expression and should be subject to a different kind of analysis than other donated monuments. If that is so, then religious monuments of whatever kind constitute a special class of monuments and a governmental entity should not be able to pick and choose among religious monuments. All or none! (I would prefer none. It's not as if there's a lack of private space for the display of religious monuments of whatever faith.)

[Strong Atheist]

2. Wow. A unanimous

bad decision. It should be all or none...