http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26296/summum-sues-to-display-monument http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26296/summum-sues-to-display-monument#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:54:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26296 After losing its case in federal court, a Utah religious group is now asking a state court judge to allow a monument in a Pleasant Grove city park.

Summum — which was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in a pyramid-shaped temple — encourages some Egyptian practices, such as mummification. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26296/summum-sues-to-display-monument/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24384/judge-dismisses-summum-request-for-equal-space-with-ten-commandments http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24384/judge-dismisses-summum-request-for-equal-space-with-ten-commandments#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:45:24 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24384 A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a lawsuit by a Salt Lake City religious group seeking equal space for its own marker in a Pleasant Grove city park that has a Ten Commandments monument.

Summum -- which was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in a pyramid-shaped temple -- encourages some Egyptian practices, such as mummification. It has demanded public space for a monument touting its 'Seven Aphorisms.']]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24384/judge-dismisses-summum-request-for-equal-space-with-ten-commandments/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24114/summum-sect-asks-to-erect-monument-while-suit-is-pending http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24114/summum-sect-asks-to-erect-monument-while-suit-is-pending#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:28:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24114 Summum, a small sect based on Gnostic Christianity, is suing Pleasant Grove, Utah seeking to erect a display of its Seven Aphorisms in a park in Pleasantgrove, Utah.

The town seeks to have the suit thrown out.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24114/summum-sect-asks-to-erect-monument-while-suit-is-pending/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23298/summum-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23298/summum-4#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:16:42 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23298 The justices today unanimously overturned a ruling that required Pleasant Grove, Utah, to give equal access to Summum, a church that wants to display its “seven aphorisms.”

Writing for the court, Justice Samuel Alito said the Pleasant Grove monument represented “government speech,” exempting it from having to give private groups equal access under the Constitution’s free-speech clause.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23298/summum-4/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22919/summum-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22919/summum-3#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:19:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22919 Followers of Summum believe that Moses received two sets of tablets on Mount Sinai and that the Ten Commandments were on the second set. The aphorisms were on the first one.

The tiny sect -- whose founder says says he learned the aphorisms during a series of telepathic encounters with divine beings he called Summa Individuals -- wants them displayed in a public park.

On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court will hear their arguments.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22919/summum-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21379/fringe-sects-lawsuit-delays-monument-to-fallen-wwii-soldiers http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21379/fringe-sects-lawsuit-delays-monument-to-fallen-wwii-soldiers#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 00:50:58 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21379 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21379/fringe-sects-lawsuit-delays-monument-to-fallen-wwii-soldiers/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21126/summum-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21126/summum-2#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:30:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21126/summum-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21126/summum-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21125/summum http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21125/summum#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:34:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21125/summum http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21125/summum/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18049/seven-aphorisms http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18049/seven-aphorisms#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:36:53 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18049/seven-aphorisms http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18049/seven-aphorisms/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5548/request-for-alternative-ten-commandments-monument http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5548/request-for-alternative-ten-commandments-monument#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2004 07:54:22 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=5548 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5548/request-for-alternative-ten-commandments-monument/feed 0