GOD GOES TO COURT

The U.S. Supreme Court is judging religion again.

In PioneerPark, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, stands a monument of the Ten Commandments. Now the Church of Summum wants to erect its own monument of the Seven Aphorisms, which they say God handed down to Moses even before the Ten Commandments. The town says"no." And so we go to court.

Summum may have a case. In 1996 the court ruled that on the Ohio capitol grounds, where there was already a Christmas tree and a Menorah, the state had to allow a cross, even though the cross was sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan.

Here are the Seven Aphorisms of Summum:

• I. THE PRINCIPLE OF PSYCHOKINESIS: SUMMUM is MIND, thought; the universe is a mental creation.
  
• II. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE: As above, so below; as below, so above.
  
• III. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION: Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.
  
• IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF OPPOSITION: Everything is dual; everything has an opposing point; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes bond; all truths are but partial truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.
  
• V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM: Everything flows out and in; everything has its season; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing expresses itself in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.
  
• VI. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is just a name for Law not recognized; there are many fields of causation, but nothing escapes the Law of Destiny.
  
• VII. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER: Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; Gender manifests on all levels.

Looks good to me. Coming up next to a monument near you, the Fifteen Rules for Riding a School Bus.