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Lawyer says right to religious liberty protects Amish sect's refusal to use triangle on buggies |
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Friday, March 25, 2011, 1:00 pm |
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A lawyer for nine Western
Kentucky Amish men said the constitutional right to religious liberty should
protect their refusal to put state-mandated bright safety emblems on their
horse-drawn buggies.
“This case is about the right of
Kentuckians to freely exercise their religious beliefs and by necessity the
limits of government's ability to impose a substantial burden on that right,”said William Sharp of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.
Read the whole Courier Journal article here.
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American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky
