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Wisconsin Town Repeals Ordinance Out of Concern For Amish Buggies

By Howard M. Friedman

Loyal, Wisconsin City Council last week repealed an ordinance that it had passed just a month earlier, out of concern that the law would discourage local Amish residents from visiting the city in their horse-drawn buggies. The ordinance would have required horses within city limits to wear manure-catching devices. According to last Friday's Salt Lake Tribune, Amish were afraid that the required bags would make their hoses skittish. After enacting the repeal by a vote of 7-1, City Council went on by a vote of 5-3 to require that horse-drawn vehicles use only a prescribed route through town.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).