Waddoups looked a bit bewildered in Buttars fiasco

Published: Sunday, March 1, 2009 12:00 p.m. MST
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The best stories about Larry H. Miller were the ones that didn't get a lot of attention. One of my personal favorites had to do with construction of Franklin Covey Field, which I covered closely as a reporter. Because the new stadium is bigger than old Derks Field, which also sat on that site, several homes beyond the outfield had to be destroyed. Miller, who headed up the stadium construction effort, personally helped those families move, making them feel much better about everything.

The lawyer for the religious group Summum says the legal fight isn't over. Maybe that's true, but the unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last week in favor of Pleasant Grove in its effort to allow the Ten Commandments, but not the "Seven Aphorisms of Summum," in a city park seems pretty decisive to me. Here is some of the wording:

"Public parks are often closely identified in the public mind with the government unit that owns the land. City parks ... commonly play an important role in defining the identity that a city projects to its own residents and to the outside world. ... Government decisionmakers select the monuments that portray what they view as appropriate for the place in question, taking into account such content-based factors as esthetics, history, and local culture."

In a separate opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia said the city hadn't violated any part of the First Amendment. Sounds pretty clear.

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Jay Evensen is editor of the Deseret News editorial page. E-mail: even@desnews.com. Visit his blog at www.deseretnews.com/blogs.

Recent comments

Waddoups is the vilian in this story if you ask me.

Buttars just...

Waddoups is the vilian | March 2, 2009 at 2:56 p.m.

There are some mighty fine writers at the Dnews. Jay is one of them....

Dale | March 2, 2009 at 10:54 a.m.

The disingenuous ambivalence of Waddoups, or snaky shifting around to...

ambivalence ubiquitous | March 2, 2009 at 9:08 a.m.

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