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Lawyer says right to religious liberty protects Amish sect's refusal to use triangle on buggies Print E-mail
Friday, March 25, 2011, 2:00 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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