NY inmates claim it’s their religious right to watch eclipse after state orders prisons locked down

NY Post ^ | 4-2-24 | Jesse O’Neill and Ben Koch

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Six inmates at a New York prison are so eager to catch next week’s solar eclipse that they’re suing their lockup, claiming the rare spectacle is a “religious event” that they should be allowed to see.

The prisoners at Woodbourne Correctional Facility argue the April 8 phenomenon — in which the Moon will pass between the Sun and the Earth, immersing part of the state in darkness in the middle of the afternoon — should “warrant gathering, celebration, worship, and prayer,” their federal lawsuit states.

The men include a Baptist, a Muslim, a Seventh-Day Adventist, two practitioners of Santeria and even one atheist — who have all “expressed a sincerely held religious belief that April’s solar eclipse is a religious event that they must witness and reflect on to observe their faiths,” according to the suit filed Friday.

But state correction officials have planned a lockdown during the astronomical marvel, in a move that would breach the inmates’ constitutional rights to practice their religions, the suit alleges.

[Chode]

The Shadow Knows... and there it is

and it goes directly over my friends house

[metmom]

I just did, too, when I tried it.

So I re-googled it and got what looks like the same link information and it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KueLOv60daU

[Vaduz]

If their religious why are they in prison.

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