Posted on 05/25/2017 1:44:55 PM PDT by Morgana
Members of an Amish community in Kentucky may take their cases to court after being cited for violating an ordinance requiring horses to wear bags to catch their droppings.
The Bowling Green Daily News reports 13 members of the Swartzentruber Amish sect in Auburn appeared in court Wednesday and were told their trials will begin August 2 if they can't settle the cases before then.
The defendants belong to a conservative sect that rejects motor vehicles and most modern technology and travel by horse-drawn buggies. They believe the bags violate their community's religious standards.
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Good fertilizer. For goodness sake are we so thin-blooded that this upsets us - in the middle of horse country?
It is ORGANIC!
It is BIODEGRADABLE!
It is RECYCLABLE!
It is CARBON-NEUTRAL!
It is GLUTEN-FREE!
etc, etc, etc.....
(and it does not infringe on the MSM market for Bovine excrement)
No modern technology in a shovel & bucket.
Using the horse as a beast of burden, striving to be good stewards and all, how does it violate their faith to put a bag on their horse to catch its stool and not spread its filth throughout the community?
Smells like horse sh!t to me too
Geez. totally legal in San Fagsicko to take a dump where the urge strikes you.
I tried to rename my old Country band The Road Apple Band, but when the other guys found out what road apples were, they nixed the name.
I know very little about the beliefs and lifestyle of the Amish. But just a quick check of sites for this thread, I think I’ll study up on them. Their resistance to modern life is admirable. I’d love me some horses.... and yes they produce great fertilizer.
I pretty much live in a Amish community. They have some of the most beautiful horses I’ve ever seen. Their Morgan line are tall and fast animals, some clearly bred for speed. I respect them and tip my hat when I run across them. They are clearly not layabout leaches. My friend was at the social security office last week. She worked hard all her life. She said the place was full of Indians and I’m not talking American Indians here. Many probably never worked a day in their life in this country.
Nonsense.
It's not an issue of morality. It's an issue of courtesy.
There should be no law to require people to clean up after their animals. They should be doing as a matter of fact.
Can you say *hypocrisy*?
That should be brought in at the trial and watch them lose it so fast their heads would spin.
When my mom was a little girl, the rag man would come along with his horse drawn wagon and his horse would always choose their street to go in.
When they heard the guy coming, she and all her siblings would scatter cause their mom would grab the first kid she could find to clean it up and put in her garden, which was second to none.
It was a BEAUTIFUL garden with rich soil.
Read my first comment...a “city slicker” tax on them...
That’s all well and good, but just a technicality to get around their prohibitions.
They can use the bags then if using the English is good enough to be legalistic about.
“Let’s get something else straight: The Amish do not run their own websites. They hire “the English” to do their technology for them.”
Well then to avoid jail, perhaps they should hire someone to put diapers on their horses.
My butchers are Amish (Princeton, NJ). Well, actually I suspect they are Mennonites because they interact with the public. Very nice, honest people.
Maybe they could just carry a bucket and shovel and clean up after their own horses themselves, like responsible, courteous, ADULTS should.
Those Chicago “Amish” don’t have to wear poop bags.
These charges are horses***!
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