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Fringe sect's lawsuit delays monument to fallen WWII soldiers
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Or, the city could just let the Summums erect their stupid monument, and avoid all the kerfuffle. When you deny religious freedom to other people, why can't they deny it to you? How can you grow up in the USA and not understand that? What do they teach in Utah classrooms?
As an atheist, I think too much time and money are wasted on lawsuits to remove religious symbols, especially long-standing ones, from the public square. The U.S. Supreme Court building is, for example, rife with them. (The corollary is I think religious groups spend far too much time trying to get their monuments on public land, when private land is just as available, because they believe it's some form of endorsement.) Nevertheless, it seems kind of churlish to oppose a religious monument on sectarian grounds.
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