That’s the bottom line from Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling that, just because a Utah city, Pleasant Grove City, has a donated Ten Commandments display, it doesn’t have to allow similar religious monuments from other groups.
Justice Samuel Alito even recognized the danger:
He acknowledged that government ownership of monuments cannot be “sed (as) a subterfuge for favoring certain private speakers over others based on viewpoint.”
Maybe it cannot legally, but it can in actuality. And it will be.
SCOTUS ruled unanimously in overturning the Tenth Circuit Court of Appleals.
Summum, the religious group filing the suit, vowed to carry on the legal battle.
That said, is Summum a nutbar group?
Yes.
Is the First Amendment supposed to allow government to legally pick and choose whether it can define a group as nutbar or not, directly or indirectly?
No.
At least, that’s the way I read it.
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