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Amen. The Amish do not bother anybody. They have as much right to the roads as anybody else. There is nothing in the Bible, or the Constitution, which says that people in motorized vehicles have more rights than those in horse-drawn ones, or bicycles, or pedestrians. If everyone in this country lived by Amish values, we would not have Baraq 0bama as President, or Warren Buffett telling us to pay more taxes, or “compassionate conservatives” forcing us to pay for gummint skools, or swarms of lawyers “eating out our substance,” or....


26 posted on 10/11/2011 6:43:31 PM PDT by hellbender
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To: hellbender
They have as much right to the roads as anybody else. There is nothing in the Bible, or the Constitution, which says that people in motorized vehicles have more rights than those in horse-drawn ones, or bicycles, or pedestrians

You know you are right! There is not a darn thing in the Bible to cover this. The Constitution is silent on this issue also. So I guess those people can just chug along in their black horse and carriage as they will. Oh, but when that car comes around that bend in the road at 35-40 MPH and can't see that black carriage going about 5 MPH and rams into the back of it and kills all the people in the carriage and perhaps the horse too, well that is just too bad eh?

30 posted on 10/11/2011 6:54:10 PM PDT by mc5cents
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