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: The Faculty LoungeFraud, Fortune Telling, and The First Amendment
By firstamendmentblogger
The ACLU of Maryland says that a Bethesda law against fortune telling violates the First Amendment. Their client, who says he learned the craft from his father, was denied a permit to open a fortune telling shop because the practice is considered an act of fraud. According to this article, similar laws in Louisiana and Wyoming have been overturned in recent years.
I don't get it. As one who was raised Catholic and had a grandmother who read cards, it's hard to see the difference between her vision that I would "journey far away" and the priest who said I'd make it to heaven so long as I put $10 in the basket and promised not to covet my neighbor's wife.
Fr. Bob had the Establishment Clause on his side, but why presume that my Memere was the bigger fraud?
Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).
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