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Supreme Court reviews animal-sacrifice religion
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A church that practices animal sacrifices told the Supreme Court Oct. 29 that government may not ban such religious sacrifices when it lets people kill animals for other reasons such as hunting.
But an attorney in Haleah, Fla., a city that banned animal sacrifices, countered that the Constitution does not protect a church's right to kill animals in worship services.
"You can kill animals for almost any reason but not for religious reasons," said Douglas Laycock, an attorney for the Church of the Lukumi Babala Aye. Animal sacrifice is the central ritual of Santeria, the ancient African religion the church practices, he said.
"The only way to prove that sacrifice is unnecessary is to prove that Santee's sacrifice is necessary."
The court's ruling in the case, expected by July, could provide new guidelines for religious freedom that also could affect mainstream denominations.
Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, enacted ordinances in 1987 to ban animal sacrifices after the Lukumi church leased
an abandoned car lot and announce plans to open a Santeria church.
Attorney Richard Garrett, representing the city, argued that the ban was needed to protect the public health and guard against cruelty to animals. People who sacrifice animals in their homes often save the animals' blood in cauldrons and dump carcasses in public places, he said.
"The Constitution does not allow all religious practices to be engaged in even if they are central to the religion," Garrett said, adding that sacrifices also would be illegal if performed by a non-religious cult.
Several justices were skeptical. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor questioned whether the city instead could have banned inhumane killings and disposing of animal remains in public.
Garrett responded that such bans would be hard to enforce and would not solve all of the problems caused by animal sacrifices.
"You might have an ordinance that was easier to defend," interjected Chief Justice William Rehounist.
Justice Anthony Kennedy questioned whether the Lukumi church's sacrifices would still be illegal if they
were held in a slaughterhouse and the
carcasses were disposed of sequester
Garrett said they would, adding, "We do not believe a church would have a right to engage in animal sacrifice."
Laycock said Hialeah allows other types of animal killings, such as hunting or leaving poison on a lawn, that causes a tree to die, and cutting an animal's main arteries.
Some justices wondered where the city drays the line on killing animals.
"Does the city of Hialeah allow people to trap mice and rats in their homes, to boil live lobsters and eat them?" O'Connor asked Garrett.
Those are not considered sacrifices, he replied.
Up to 60,000 people in south Florida practice Santeria, which was carried to Cuba by slaves in past centuries and then to the United States. An integral part is the sacrifice of animals — chickens, ducks, goats and sheep — for birth, marriage and death rites and the initiation of new priests.
Hialeah banned "unnecessary" sacrifices of animals outside slaughterhouses in rituals not mainly aimed at providing food.
Iranians accuse American of spying
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iranian authorities yesterday said that they arrested an U.S. businessman and accused him of spying.
The Associated Press
The official Islamic Republic News Agency said that Milton Mayar, 58, was providing vital business information from Iran to several international companies. It said that he also had links with foreign intelligence agents.
Sources in Teheran said that Mayur owned a travel agency in Iran and was trying to promote tourism in the country.
Neither the sources nor the Iranian news reports gave a hometown for Mayar.
His arrest was announced in a statement by the Ministry of Information, the news reports said. It did not say when Mayar was arrested but the announcement came on the 13th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran by Iranian militants.
Thursday, November 5, 1992
Teheran radio said that thousands of Iranians gathered in front of the embassy for a rally commemorating the takeover, during which Iranian militants held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Protesters chanted "Death to America" and carried placards with anti-American slogans, the Iranian news agency said.
Mayar's arrest partly appeared to be an attempt by the government to demonstrate that Iran's Islamic revolution remained canable of standing up to the United States.
Since revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died in June 1989, his successors have been struggling to keep the revolution alive, but infighting among various factions has undermined their efforts.
There was no official Iranian reaction to Bill Clinton's victory in the U.S. presidential election and the news came too late.
The Iranian news agency, monitored in Cyprus, said that Mayar was accused of "illegal establishment of several trade firms, collecting important economic information and identifying leading elements at commercial institutions and environments."
It said that he was the brother-in-law of Gen. Nematolah Nasiri, the head of the late shah of Iran's secret police, who was executed after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Mayar had stayed in Iran after the revolution on the pretext of having an Iranian wife, the news agency said.
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