Once again Utah makes national news for off-the-beaten-path religious beliefs.

Only this time it's not the polygamists. And no, it's not the mainline Mormons and their Prop 8 controversy, either.

It's Salt Lake City's pyramidal Summum church, which went to court to put its the Seven Aphorisms in Pleasant Grove's city park to keep the Ten Commandments company.

Pleasant Grove, with Utah County's usual unsure grip on the separation of church and state and the First Amendment, said, of course, no way.

The Summumists filed suit and a federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment required the city let the Seven Aphorisms be displayed. The Supreme Court will hear the case, that, according to The New York Times, "could produce the most important free speech decision of the term."

The justices will consider whether a public park that has accepted a donated monument must accept any similar donated monuments as well — following the same rules as it does for other speech. Ron Temu, a Summum counselor, argues:

They’ve put a basically Judeo-Christian religious text in the park, which we think is great, because people should be exposed to it. But our principles should be exposed as well.

Sounds fair to me. I especially like the Third Aphorism:

Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.

Words to live by.