The Supreme Court today unanimously agreed that a little-known religious group does not have the right to erect the "Seven Aphorisms" of its beliefs in a Utah city park just because the Ten Commandments are displayed there.

In their decision, the justices said the Ten Commandments monument in a Pleasant Grove City, Utah, park is a form of government speech, and the city's decision to turn down a request from the religious group Summum is not a violation of the group's First Amendment rights.

Unlike previous court decisions about the display of the Ten Commandments, this case concerned the Free Speech Clause, and not the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which prohibits government from favoring one religion over another.

Permanent monuments in city parks, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the court, are erected "for the purpose of presenting the image of the city that it wishes to project to all who frequent the park."