Community | August 02, 2009 | 8 comments

US Court: Santeria, animal sacrifice, OK

source: http://www.examiner.com/x-10853-Portland-Humanist-Examiner~y2009m8d1-US-Court-Santeria-anima...

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A US federal court will allow a Santeria priest to resume animal sacrifices as part of his religious practice. The ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's ruling barring the priest from sacrificing animals, in particular, goats.

Euless, Texas city officials had attempted to ban the sacrifices, claiming the practice raised public health concerns and violated slaughterhouse and animal cruelty ordinances. Jose Merced, a Santeria priest and Puerto Rico native, challenged the ban in federal court as a restriction on his constitutional right to the free exercise of religion.
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8 comments // US Court: Santeria, animal sacrifice, OK

  • unclecharlie
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • unclecharlie:

      I think the only one with hate and bile here is you.

      Someone got a little too defensive when their beliefs were mentioned.

      I also love how you yammer on about how she doesn't know what she's talking about only to then completely CONFIRM it in the rest of your post.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • ....except "the body and blood of christ" don't require a "stand in" to produce; the homeless are not routinely rounded up for the ritual to proceed.

      still-not worse than a slaughterhouse. Start there if you want more humane treatment of animals.

    • 2 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • Religious superstition is just that, superstition.

      Ritual animal sacrifice is horrible, but no more crazy than eating the body and drinking the blood of christ...

    • 2 years ago
  • imp_print
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      imp_print  

    • Ummm read your bible, people sacrificed shit all the time, get over it.
      Freedom of religion is basically the last one we have left after the Patriot act, enjoy it while it lasts.

    • 2 years ago
  • aerie
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  

    • Well you know what. My religion says I can smoke weed. Where the fuck is my freedom of religion? These freaks can go out and slit the necks of animals and thats ok but I can't smoke a plant for my religious beliefs.
      What bullshit

    • 2 years ago
  • aerie
  • aerie
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      aerie  

    • So a goat is ok, but a cat is not? A sheep is ok but a dog is not? Something different about the two? One matters and one doesn't? You make no sense.

    • 2 years ago
  • idealist
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      idealist  

    • that and slaughter houses arent really that much better at not being cruel to animals!
      as along as there not sacrificeing cats or dogs or humans for that matter i think they should be able to.

    • 2 years ago
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