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No Monument For Mummy Group, No Monument For Nobody

May 8, 2008

A religious group named Summum, based in a golden pyramid in Salt Lake City, has blocked the erection of a monument for some World War II soldiers who died in a plane crash.

An article in the Deseret News tries to unwind the complicated tale. Apparently, Summum wants to erect a monument of its Seven Commandments next to a Ten Commandments monument in the Utah town of Pleasant Grove. The only way the town could block Summum’s monument was to ban ALL additional monuments — which nixed the soldiers’ monument. It isn’t clear, however, why the soldiers, who died in a troop transport crash in Australia, have to be remembered in a small town in Utah.

But it shouldn’t matter. Plane crash in Australia? Seven Commandments? Leventy-Leven Commandments? Pleasant Grove should take ‘em all — the more monuments the merrier. Certainly the Summum religion, which is the only one that still practices mummification, and which was founded in the 1970s by a man named Corky Ra, can be counted on to put up something memorable.

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