What's good for the religious goose is good for another religion's gander

SCOTUS, which has ruled that Ten Commandments displays on government ground do promote a religious message, will be hearing Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, to determine if the presence of the aforementioned commandments on the Utah city's public space means that members of other religions have the right to display their codes on the same ground. "Christians" are not pleased with the prospects of displays from other religions sullying up their commandments and are fighting the possibility of sharing space based on some half-assed argument that allowing other religions equal time under the first amendment would require the country to allow every crackpot to put up a display that expresses the opposite view of any legitimate display:

Liberty Counsel attorney Mat Staver told OneNewsNow that Summum was a "cult that has some kind of Egyptian religion associated with it." Staver contended that al-Qaeda would be allowed to erect a companion monument to the donated 9/11 memorial, or a "statue of tyranny" to stand alongside the Statue of Liberty. "It would require, for example, if someone donates to the Vietnam Memorial, which in fact has been made by private funds, that someone else could come and donate something that is contrary to the theme of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC." RawStory

The Seven aphorisms, according to Summum are:

1. THE PRINCIPLE OF PSYCHOKINESIS
2. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE
3. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION
4. THE PRINCIPLE OF OPPOSITION
5. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM
6. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
7. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER

and are meant as a companion to the Ten Commandments. In fact, according to the religion:

Moses in the Old Testament was given both a "lower" and "higher" knowledge from a divine being. The lower knowledge was embodied in the more widely known Ten Commandments, while the higher was expressed in what Summum refers to as the "Seven Aphorisms." According to Summum, when Moses first descended from Mount Sinai, he had with him the higher law inscribed on stone tablets. However, the undeveloped condition of the Israelites prevented them from understanding. Moses returned to Mount Sinai and returned with another set of tablets containing the lower law that was much easier for the people to comprehend. Wikipedia

G-d forgive me, but I know I am not the only one who read about this and immediately remembered there were originally 15 commandments




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