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Sect seeks to erect monument while suit is pending
(AP, February 20, 2010)

Salt Lake City, USA - Pleasant Grove is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by a Salt Lake City religious group that wants to erect a monument in a city park.

But Summum, a small sect based on Gnostic Christianity, asked U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball to allow it to erect a display of its Seven Aphorisms while the suit is pending.

The group is seeking equal space for its own marker in the park that has a Ten Commandments monument.

At issue are the Establishment Clauses in the state and federal constitutions, which prohibit the promotion of 1 religion over another.

Kimball says he will issue a ruling later in the dispute, which has garnered national attention.

Summum sued Pleasant Grove in 2005 over its refusal to let it put up its monument.

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