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Pleasant Grove City v. Summum: 9-0 decision makes sense

By ADF Alliance Alert

Mary Jean Dolan writes at the National Law Journal: "A 9-0 judgment for Pleasant Grove City, Utah, on a case involving an icon of the 'Culture Wars' ? a government-displayed Ten Commandments monument ? what's going on here? . . . At least in the certiorari granted and oral argument news cycles, most media stories focused on discrimination against a tiny religion in favor of the familiar Judeo-Christian monument, but that was never the legal issue in the case. Instead, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a government's display of a privately donated, permanent monument is 'government speech,' so that its decisions to accept or reject proffered donations are not covered by the free speech clause." Related posts and The Summum ruling

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).