On Monday, the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and sent back to the district court for further development of the facts a suit involving the placement of a Ten Commandments monument in a park in Pleasant Grove, Utah. In Society of Separationists v. Pleasant Grove City, the Court said that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Ten Commandments rulings now require the development of a myriad facts to determine whether plaintiffs can proceed.
Meanwhile, today the Salt Lake Tribune reports that followers of the Summum faith, founded in 1975 and based on Egyptian customs, have filed suit in federal district court in Utah to get its "Seven Aphorisms" posted in the Pleasant Grove park along with the Ten Commandments monument. They believe that these were handed down to Moses on a second trip down from Mt. Sinai as a "higher law" for the select few who could understand them.
