Summum Summons Your Attention!
The Summum Pyramid, located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Being a party to a lawsuit that will be decided by the United States Supreme Court is probably the best way an unknown religion can market itself. Yesterday, not many people knew about Summum, a religion created in 1975. But after tomorrow, more and more people will google “Summum” because tomorrow the religion will come before the Supreme Court to argue its case against Please Grove City.
Summum wants to achieve the same status that Christianity has. It petitioned to the city of Please Grove to allow it to erect a monument commemorating its Seven Aphorisms in the same park where a Ten Commandments monolith was located. The city responded, “Thanks, but No Thanks.” Actually, the city was more diplomatic than that. It rejected Summum’s petition because it was not “directly relate[d] to the history of Pleasant Grove” or “donated by groups with long-standing ties to the Pleasant Grove community.” Summum sued the city for abridging its free speech rights.
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