High Court Asked to End Religious Teatime
Yet another example of "freedom of MY religion and curtailment of YOURS by the Bush Administration. I haven't seen any instances of wild rabid ceremonial tea drinkers accosting school children or old women or scores of drug crazed ceremonial tea drinkers lining up at the Chapel O Love for quickie marriages. Doesn't the Bush Administration have BETTER things to do with its time? Like maybe addressing identity theft or ensuring privacy or free speech? *sigh*
High Court Asked to End Religious Teatime: "A small Christian group's drinking of ceremonial tea could be curtailed if the Bush administration has its way before the Supreme Court. The administration is challenging the New Mexico group and its practice of drinking hoasca, a sacred herbal tea that members believe connects them to God. The tea contains dimethyltryptamine, a controlled substance the administration claims is banned by international treaty. The Court will decide whether to hear the case at its conference Friday."
(Via Law.com.)
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I don't personally want to take DMT; in the 60s, it was rumored to make acid look like aspirin. However, if people contact their deity that way, who am I to judge?
I wonder how the Native American Church is faring under G. Dubya? They use peyote in their sacraments. What would happen if some Christian church used a mind-altering substance to contact Jehovah (or Jesus, or the Holy Spirit)? I'm not sure, but I suspect they'd get a free pass under that silly, archaic "Religious Freedom" thing I hear was meant to apply to...well...everyone. Of all religions. Period.
Posted by: Laurel | April 14, 2005 03:39 PM