A Case of Religious Discrimination

I read the article A Case of Religious Discrimination, where it talks about Pioneer Park in Pleasant Grove City, Utah. The debate is over whether or not the religious group, the Summum, should be allowed to place a monument in the park which already contains a monument of the Ten Commandments and a September 11th memorial. The monument includes the group's Seven Principles of Creation, which it believes were inscribed on tablets handed down from God to Moses on Mount Sinai. Pleasant Grove City rejected the Summum's request telling the group they only accepted displays that directly related to the city's history. The Summum's sued and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circut in Denver agreed with them that the city had no right to discriminate on the basis of the content of the monument.
Religion is a personal choice and therefore should not be discriminated against. In the Pioneer Park case the discrimination was not on one person but a particular group. It is in the Constitution that we have the freedom of speech. By denying the applicaion for the Summum's monument, they were violating the First Amendment for this group. Unfortunately this type of discrimination happens every day, in every city, town, etc. The reason for the continuance of this discrimination is because of the ability to invent new meanings for the words that the founders wrote. The First Amendment states, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. By not accepting the Summum's application for the placement of their monument, the city was prohibiting the free exercise of this group.