The Salt Lake Tribune
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Monumental argument
The Supreme Court of the United States will today listen to arguments about displaying religious monuments in public places - with a Utah case under the microscope.

The high court will hear about the dispute over Summum, the Salt Lake City-based spiritual group that wanted to erect a monument listing its Seven Aphorisms in a Pleasant Grove park where a Ten Commandments monument now stands.

Fun fact: Many of the Ten Commandments monuments placed around the United States were put there by the Fraternal Order of Eagles during the 1950s - a program that really took off when filmmaker Cecil B. deMille, promoting his 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments," arranged to have hundreds of the monuments installed. (There are nine in Utah.)

Maybe the Summum folks should hire Steven Spielberg to make an epic movie about their Seven Aphorisms.

Labels:

posted by Sean P. Means @ 9:36 AM |

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Links to this post:

Create a Link

<< Home

© Copyright 2008, The Salt Lake Tribune. All material found on Utah Online is copyrighted The Salt Lake Tribune and associated news services. No material may be reproduced or reused without explicit permission from The Salt Lake Tribune.
Feedback
   If you have any hot tips - interesting art exhibits, weird experiences at the theater, unusual billboards, sightings of “High School Musical” stars at Crown Burger, whatever - send them along to me at vulture@sltrib.com.