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Apparently modesty and an avoidance of garish displays is very important to them, so much so that they are willing to put their lives on the line to avoid them. The red triangle on the back of a black buggy is garish, no doubt about it. Since the people overwhelmingly most likely to be killed or injured in a car/buggy accident are the occupants of the buggy, why can't they decide how best to protect themselves, within the limits of their religious beliefs?

I drive through Amish country every day. Now that it's gonna be dark on the drive home again, I hope I don't run across any of these guys. Because they are not just endangering themselves, they endanger drivers - the buggies are hard enough to see at night, and the instinct upon suddenly encountering a hard-to-see buggy at night is to try to swerve to avoid them - right into oncoming traffic, as the roads are old and often sunken down below ground level.

As far as I'm concerned, the more reflective surfaces, the better, and most buggies are heavily festooned with reflectors of red and orange, along with flashing lights. I can marginally agree that the SMV triangle is not all that important - but they also wish to use gray tape instead of orange tape which is much more visible.

To: governsleastgovernsbest

As I've written elsewhere, my policy (which I've never had to apply) is simply to note in the letter that the student has creationist beliefs, since this is likely to be relevant to certain medical fields, and let the Med. School make its own decision. But the faculty member is well within his rights. Creationists want to enjoy the fruits of modern biology while denying its foundations. Modern medicine is become increasingly genome-based. The genome makes no sense except in the context of evolution.

Is it religious discrimination to deny an Amish a job as a truckdriver because he won't drive a vehicle fueled by an interal combustion engine?

53 posted on 01/30/2003 8:13 AM PST by Right Wing Professor