Summary
The First Amendment reads, in part, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...." The 10th Amendment reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Does anyone else recognize that the United States and Congress are not state government? The power to regulate religions is not prohibited to the states or people in the Constitution, only to Congress!
While there are Supreme Court decisions that affirm a separation of church and state based on letters written by Thomas Jefferson, the First Amendment has no force at the state level or on the people as a whole. This means either that Pleasant Grove has license from the state or its people to put whatever it likes in its parks or that it is neither "the states, [n]or the people" and has no right to decide which beliefs are displayed in its parks. I don't mind a debate over what city parks can display, but can we please have arguments based on the Constitution?See the full content of this document
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