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The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a “religious conscience” exemption, which allows people with religious objections to insurance to opt out of the mandate. It is in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, making its appearance in the final version routine unless there are last-minute objections.
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David Winters ("Watertown Daily Times," December 2, 2009)
Morristown, USA – An attempt to reach an out-of-court settlement has failed in the case of 11 Amish families who are suing the town of Morristown for religious discrimination.
"Plaintiffs and defendants have been unable to reach a settlement, despite continued settlement discussions," wrote Michael T. Mervis, a New York City attorney with Proskauer Rose LLP, representing the Amish.
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(AP) – QUARRYVILLE, Pa. – Kenneth Burkholder is perplexed. His business, Good’s Store Inc., is one of hundreds of Amish and Mennonite stores that do not sell American flags. Nobody’s singling out the other places. But Good’s is under fire. The sender of a recent mass e-mailing claimed that a young, unnamed Good’s sales clerk “wrinkled her nose” in disdain when quizzed about flag sales. “We…
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(AP) – ST. LOUIS – The University of Missouri Extension has received federal funding to help Amish and Mennonite produce growers reduce the use of high-risk pesticides. The Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Kansas City, Kan., says the $51,158 grant will help build on Missouri Extension’s earlier work with Amish and Mennonite growers…. 
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(AP) – MARSHFIELD, Mo. – Four Amish bishops were charged Tuesday with not reporting a sexual crime against a child allegedly committed by a member of their community in southern Webster County. Webster County officials say the bishops were each charged with one misdemeanor count of failure of to report a sexual crime against a child. Those charged were Christian J.F…. 
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(AP) – NEILLSVILLE, Wis. – A Clark County judge has ruled prosecutors presented enough evidence showing an Amish farmer failed to comply with a 2005 law that requires farmers with livestock to register with the state. But Judge John Counsell ordered both sides Wednesday to submit written arguments on whether the law can be applied to the Amish without violating…
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(AP) – STEVENSVILLE, Mont. – When Mark Stoltzfus received the first phone call about building an Amish-style chicken coop, he didn’t interpret the odd query as a niche business opportunity. As the phone calls continued to trickle in, though, it occurred to him that it was a niche he could fill. “About three weeks ago people started calling about chicken coops,” Stoltzfus said. “They’d seen some of our other structures and asked if we could do coops in the same style.” The “style” he refers to is a traditional, board-and-batten craftsmanship unique to the Amish, and…
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Michigan farmers have failed in their attempt to block the introduction of RFID tags for cattle, despite arguments about the cost and the risk of upsetting an otherwise benevolent deity.…
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Michigan farmers have failed in their attempt to block the introduction of RFID tags for cattle, despite arguments about the cost and the risk of upsetting an otherwise benevolent deity.…
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DENVER — The Christian book business, optimistic that a little literary escapism might be an antidote for readers in hard times, is turning to bonnets, buggies and bloodsuckers. Even as Christian publishing suffers during the recession – one study found
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NICKTOWN, Pa. — In 29 years of enforcing sewage laws in Pennsylvania, Jack E. Crislip has never faced violators more adamant, or more pleasant to deal with, than members of the ultraconservative Swartzentruber Amish sect.
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Church leaders in northern Indiana relent and allow followers to collect unemployment checks. It’s become a matter of survival.
The Amish are defined by their religious beliefs, shunning automobiles, insurance and electricity in their homes.
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EBENSBURG, Pennsylvania – A western Pennsylvania Amish farmer was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail after refusing to bring two outhouses into compliance with state sewage laws.
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Daniel Borntreger’s Jackson County home looks like hundreds of other Wisconsin farmhouses. But it could cost him thousands of dollars in fines. The Amish farmer built it without a permit. –
AP reports The Amish say their commitment to
live apart from the world trumps government regulations. Building
officials say the Amish need to follow the law like everyone else.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty plans to file a federal
lawsuit in New York soon arguing the Amish’s religious beliefs
supersede building codes.
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A group of seven Amish farmers in Michigan say the state’s insistence that they use radio frequency ID devices on their animals “constitutes some form of a ‘mark of the Beast’ and/or represents an infringement of their ‘dominion over cattle and all living things’ in violation of their fundamental religious beliefs,” according to their lawsuit. –
The Telegraph [UK] reports The Amish, members of an Anabaptist Christian denomination, are best known for
their literal interpretation of the Bible and their simple lifestyle.
The livestock registration is intended to create a national tracking system to
help contain outbreaks of diseases such as mad cow disease, or foot and
mouth.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden is telling the Catholics in his audiences that St. Thomas Aquinas had a different teaching on abortion than the current pope and his immediate predecessors. Many Catholics are saying, “He simply cannot be right.” Well, the short answer is: Biden is right. –
Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D. at the Washington University in St. Louis comments The Catholic teaching on
abortion has complex roots in Jewish teaching, Greek thought and early
Christian doctrine. Jewish teaching shows great reverence for life as a
gift from God. The law of compensation in Exodus 21:22 makes a
distinction between the penalty for striking a pregnant woman that ends
in the loss of the fetus (a monetary amount) or the mother (death).
Greeks and Romans were not
squeamish about abortion. They held the state to be supreme and
abortion was permissible if political reasons dictate. Thus they freely
used drugs causing abortions and exposed defective children, even
normal female children if a male heir was desired first.
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Founded in the 17th century in Europe, the Amish are Anabaptists, a Christian sect that believes in baptizing only adults. They moved to Pennsylvania in the 1730s and saw modest growth until the 1950s, when the population began to increase rapidly, Kraybill said. –
RNS reports In fact, nearly 11,600 Amish households have picked up and moved to a
different state since 1992, according to a new study. And that doesn’t
include migration within states, said the study’s author, Amish expert
Donald B. Kraybill.
Even though more than 2,000 Amish households left traditional
settlements in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the communities there grew by at
least 60 percent, owing to extremely high birth and baptism rates.
The Amish population continues to explode, growing 84 percent from
1992 to 2008, without the help of immigration or many religious
conversions. Kraybill counts 231,000 Amish adults and children spread
throughout 28 states.
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A leading British scientific institution is facing criticism for what is being seen as its effective dismissal of a leading scientist, after he made remarks about creationism in the classroom that it admits were misinterpreted by the media. –
Ekklesia reports But the Royal Society says that Professor Michael Reiss’s recent
comments, on the issue of how to persuade children from creationist
homes to take science seriously in schools, were “open to
misinterpretation” – namely that they were some kind of justification
for teaching anti-science creationism, which both he and the Society
oppose.
The Society faced some instant calls for his dismissal, and a number
of people, including Professor Richard Dawkins, whose role as a
promoter of science understanding has been supplemented by an
increasingly vociferous personal crusade against anything to do with
religion, described the idea of a clergyman as Britain’s senior science
educator as like something out of “a Monty Python sketch.”
He later admitted these words to be “a little uncharitable”, and
said those calling on Reiss to resign specifically because he was an
ordained priest might be getting “a little too close to a witch-hunt
for my squeamish taste.”
“The issue is not about teaching creationism,” one science educator
told Ekklesia. “We are all agreed that is inappropriate. The question
is, do you simply refuse to engage with children who think that
religion must oppose evolution – which is, of course, not the case at
all. Do you discuss these things, or do you just silence or mock them?
This is a very important issue.”