Her Right Honorable Self Crook - yes - that is her last name.
“District Judge Deborah Hawkins Crooks ordered the Western Kentucky men be jailed for three to 10 days, The (Louisville) Courier Journal reported.
The men, who belong to a particularly strict Amish sect in Graves County, said paying the fines violated their religious beliefs against wearing bright colors or trusting in man-made symbols for their safety.”
Some funny haired Dude once said (paraphrased of course):
“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”
Such laws (even if one disagrees on this one, there are others) examples that the 1st Amendment does not assure complete freedom of religion. Nor do equal rights laws mandate that all types of lifestyles and practices be tolerated, let alone affirmed, including homosexual relations.
What a bitch. Forcing timed served on them. from the article
A friend paid the fine for one of the men so that he could care for an ailing son, the newspaper said. The other eight men reported to jail Monday night.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals in June denied the defendants’ appeal of their misdemeanor convictions for failing to follow a state law that requires the safety triangles on slow-moving vehicles.
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The men have appealed to the state Supreme Court.
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