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SUE MENI, SUMMUM CHURCH MEMBER: The name of our organization is Summum.
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Pleasant Grove City and it's been bumping up through the court system since 2003, when the founder of a religion called Summum asked the town of Pleasant Grove City in Utah to accept the donation of a stone monument with his faith's precepts, to be placed in a city park next to a decades-old monument with the Ten Commandments.
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Sean Michael Winters, writing on the blog of America magazine, has an analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling last week that a park in Utah need not allow a monument by a "fringe religious group called Summum" just because it has a Ten Commandments monument.
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Officials in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, asked the court to step into the lawsuit brought by the religious group known as Summum, saying that if the group prevails, governments would be inundated with demands to display donated monuments.
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Now in such a scheme of division and subdivision as the foregoing, the highest class taken is known as the Summum Genus.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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The sect, called Summum, filed a lawsuit against the small city of Pleasant Grove for rejecting their monument while allowing the Ten Commandments erected in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles because it had a historic value.
Turkish Press 2008
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The justices seemed reluctant to accept the arguments put forth by the religious group known as the Summum that once a government accepts any donations for display in a public park, it must accept them all.
ABC 4: Top Stories 2008
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However, when a religious group called Summum, founded in 1975 and based in Salt Lake City, wanted to install its own Seven Principles of Creation (or Seven Aphorisms) monument, the city rejected the application.
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The justices seemed reluctant to accept the arguments put forth by the religious group known as the Summum that once a government accepts any donations for display in a public park, it must accept them all.
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Thirty miles to the north, in Salt Lake City, adherents of a religion called Summum gather in a wood and metal pyramid hard by Interstate 15 to meditate on their Seven Aphorisms, fortified by an alcoholic sacramental nectar they produce and surrounded by mummified animals.
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