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By Maren Guse
The Supreme Court heard a case involving Summum, a small spiritual group, that wants to place a religious monument in a public park in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, according to the New York Times.
The Supreme Court is to determine whether the city violated the First Amendment protection of free speech. The Court is accustomed to thinking under the First Amendment right of freedom of religion in connection with the 10 Commandments, however, this case is being reviewed as a freedom of speech issue. The monument was to be placed next to the 10 Commandments, which the city had no problem allowing in the park.
The church argued that the city was censoring ideas and that government cannot “discriminate among donated private monuments in public parks than it can among speeches and leaflets.”
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