Posted on 03/10/2010 5:46:00 PM PST by SJackson
NEILLSVILLE (AP) - An Amish livestock farmer who refused to follow a 2005 Wisconsin law requiring him to register his land and livestock has won a legal battle with state regulators.
Clark County Circuit Judge Jon Counsell on March 9 ruled in favor of Emanuel Miller Jr. of Loyal, who was accused of violating the law meant to help regulators track animal diseases.
Some Amish say the tracking system would amount to the "mark of the beast" mentioned in the Bible as being related to Satan.
Counsell determined that the state did not show why alternatives that would not affect Miller's religious freedom would not be just as effective.
Assistant state veterinarian Paul McGraw told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he expects the state to appeal.
Reasonable people can doubt that the mark the Amish are being pressured to take has nothing to do with the mark of the beast, but that doesn’t make the Amish idiots.
I took it that you were advocating for Government to ‘tell the consumer’ if it was in the product because how else WOULD the consumer know?
I mean, I’m in favor of a clean food supply and all...
Oh, just read my post #18. That sums up better what I was thinking. Didn’t mean to jump on ya. Sorry! I just HATE Government interference at my dinner table.
They’re already all over my work life (taxes), in my church and in my bedroom, the perverts! ;)
Where did you find that? Darwin Central? And you call the Amish idiots.
Heaven and hell are real. God and Satan are real. The sooner you accept reality, the better. The idiots are not the people who know The Truth. The idiots are the people who laughingly deny The Truth.
Good for the Amish!
Given the NAIS system being gradually introduced, the phrase “mark of the beast” could be taken quite literally.
Thanks for the ping.
I meant it was the ONLY thing they should do if anything. But you know how they are, they like to get involved in all of our business. Because they think we are too stupid to run our own lives.
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