Why didn't Pleasant Grove just stick to swings and teeter-totters in its city parks. No, they had to let a some Christians put up a Ten Commandments monument.

Of course some other religion was going to demand the same right. Summum, the other Salt Lake-based religion, wants to put a granite monolith in city parks engraved with its Seven Aphorisms — stuff like psychokinesis, vibration, opposition, rhythm and cause and effect. Summum followers believe the first draft stone tablet God gave to Moses was the Seven Aphorisms. But Moses realized most humans were too dumb to understand them and destroyed that tablet. So, God put together a simple, Dr. Seuss set of laws that we now call the Ten Commandments.

Sounds good to me.

Now, Pleasant Grove is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in before city parks everywhere start to look like so-many boneyards. Lawyers for Pleasant Grove argue:

Government bodies are now sitting targets for demands that they grant 'equal access' to whatever comparable monuments a given group wishes to have installed, be it Summum's Seven Aphorisms, an atheist group's Monument to Freethought or Rev. Fred Phelps's denunciations of homosexual persons.

But Brian Barnard, who represents Summum, has an arguement that even Moses' humans can follow:

It's a matter of simple fairness. If you let one private group put up a monument in a public park, you have to let another private group put up a monument. You can't pick and choose.

*"You can't cheat an honest man—so never give a sucker an even break or wise up a chump."— W.C. Fields.