Real quick, I’d like to apologize for not being as active on here since the election – I’m actually looking into a lot of things that could make this site better, and planning a major redesign for it after the release of Wordpress 2.7 (sometime this month, hopefully). I’m also redoing a friend’s site and researching some other things that might help me quit my job soon. But anyways, let’s do this:
PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH – The battle about whether or not the city of Pleasant Grove can continue to display a monument that contains the Ten Commandments in a city park rages on, and has reached the Supreme Court level. Even though the Supreme Court ruled that the Government can display the Ten Commandments in public places as “part of a broader display of historical or moral symbols,” this case is different inasmuch as it is not about the Establishment Clause, yet is more focused on free speech and other religious groups being able to promote their message as well. The complainants in this case are the Summums, a religious group founded in 1975, that would like to display their “seven aphorisms” in the park as well, and claim that their right of free speech guarantees them the right to do so.
Sorry, but aliens and stuff I see on the X-Files is even more retarded than Joseph Smith and Mormonism.
However, the City, who was given the monument that contains the Ten Commandments in 1971 by The Fraternal Order of Eagles, is considering arguing that the monument is government speech, and therefore not subject to equal access of everybody else. But, the Summums’ legal team argues, if this is the case then the government is adopting the Ten Commandments as its own, and that then goes against the Establishment Clause, which states that the Government may not establish its own religion. So either way, the Summums see it, either they should have the same right to put their display, or the Ten Commandments on the monument should be removed. But they’re wrong. Here’s why:
Okay, well, maybe not wrong in a legal or moral sense, but they are stupid. Firstly, the Summum belief is stupid, and even though I consider myself fairly open-minded, the thought of some dude named Corky being visited by “beings who work along the pathways of creation” who introduced him to philosophies and psychokinesis and told him to gather people and do their thing in a pyramid. Sorry, but aliens and stuff I see on the X-Files is even more retarded than Joseph Smith and Mormonism. (And yes, I have my own religious beliefs that many of you probably see as just as bizarre, but seriously – aliens and pyramids?)
Don’t I have a right to not see that stupid shit?
The truth is that Corky and his people just want to cause a fuss, and I hate when people do that. Sure, they may have a right to put their own display in the park, but nobody wants to see shit about aliens and psychokinesis on a nice Utah autumn afternoon stroll through a park. Sure, passers-by could just not look, but what’s next? Satanists who want to hang dead goats from the trees as part of a display? Maybe every religious group should put up a display, and then there’d be no room for anything in the park. Personally, I think these idiots don’t really care about their display – they just want to rock the boat and piss people off, which is even more retarded than having The Langoliers as their god.
The monument was given to the City in the ’70s. Back then people didn’t really care about the Ten Commandments. It’s been sitting there for 40 years now, and what, they want to take it down? Just shut the fuck up already. Stop being assholes simply for the sake of being assholes. I may agree with the Ten Commandments and wouldn’t mind them in a park, but really, if you don’t subscribe to that religion, is it really that offensive? Most people would agree that murder, adultery, etc. is bad anyways. So what’s the big deal?
To me, nobody will win from this. If these freakin’ weirdos win the Commandments are removed from the monument, big whoop. Tax dollars hard at work in legal fees and grinding the thing down. Not to mention it’ll piss off the Soaring Eagles or whoever. I don’t think anybody will breathe a sigh of relief saying “whew, thank God goodness those were removed!” I bet most people don’t even notice them or care about them anymore. But I also bet people would be pretty pissed to see UFOs and pyramids erected in the park preaching about healing people with ESP. Don’t I have a right to not see that stupid shit? It’s kind of like the anti-abortion people who go and bomb clinics – sure, depending on your beliefs they may be right, but killing people and bombing buildings is not the way to solve the problem, nor is it the way to recruit people to join your campaign. Same as the religious zealots on the street corner yelling at you, calling you names and condemning you, saying you’re going to Hell – nobody is going to stop and listen to that crap.
So if this group wants exposure, build a website. Hand out flyers. Put up signs. But once you start causing trouble, offending people, and being a pain in the ass to the whole country, people aren’t going to join you, they’re going to hate you. Now all you little alien-lovers go put on your damn Nikes, track suits, purple cloths, and eat your applesauce already; I just got an intergalactic text message saying that ET is coming back and will be here by Friday.
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