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Trial Focuses On Amish Refusal To Use Lights and Triangle On Buggies

By Howard Friedman

A Graves County, Kentucky District Court on Monday heard testimony in a case in which three Amish men were cited for not having flashing lights and an orange triangular symbol on their slow-moving buggies. The AP reports that Judge Deborah Crooks delayed issuing a decision in order to give attorneys time to submit post-trial legal memos in the case that pits safety laws against religious beliefs. The required triangular symbol is viewed as "worldly" by the Amish. During the trial, Defendant Jacob Gingerich said, "I have trust in God, not in a symbol."

Full post as published by Religion Clause on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).