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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

The Kybalion & The Supreme Court

Thursday April 3, 2008
If Paul Case were alive today, I wonder what he would make of the Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments from the town of Pleasant Grove, Utah, which is seeking to prevent a monument of the Seven Hermetic Aphorisms from being posted alongside its Ten Commandments. The fight continues after a decision by the tenth Circuit Court to force the city to allow the monument so long as it continues to display a monument bearing the Ten Commandments. This was one of two decisions in favor of Summum's monuments. The argument in favor of the monument is one of simple fairness: if the religious right is allowed a monument, then other religious (or non-religious) groups should be afforded the same priviledge. The argument against is a poor slippery slope reasoning that a fair policy would allow anyone with any crazy ideas to post a monument (the article helpfully suggests Fred Phelps or atheists), so only monuments approved by city goverbments should be allowed.

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