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bush loses.. SCOTUS legalizes ayahuasca...
    #5323676 - 02/21/06 11:14 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/21/scotus.religion.ap/index.html

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Court sides with church on hallucinogenic tea
Other rulings affect workplace discrimination, death penalty

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that a small congregation in New Mexico may use hallucinogenic tea as part of a four-hour ritual intended to connect with God.

Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice John Roberts, moved decisively to keep the government out of a church's religious practice.

Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision.

The tea, which contains an illegal drug known as DMT, is considered sacred to members of O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, which has a blend of Christian beliefs and South American traditions. Members believe they can understand God only by drinking the tea, which is consumed twice a month at four-hour ceremonies.

New Justice Samuel Alito did not take part in the case, which was argued last fall before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor prior to her retirement. Alito was on the bench for the first time on Tuesday.
Roberts skeptical

Roberts said that the Bush administration had not met its burden under a federal religious freedom law to show that it could ban "the sect's sincere religious practice."

The chief justice had also been skeptical of the government's position in the case last fall, suggesting that the administration was demanding too much, a "zero tolerance approach."

The Bush administration had argued that the drug in the tea not only violates a federal narcotics law, but a treaty in which the United States promised to block the importation of drugs including dimethyltryptamine, also known as DMT.

"The government did not even submit evidence addressing the international consequences of granting an exemption for the (church)," Roberts wrote.

The justices sent the case back to a federal appeals court, which could consider more evidence.

Roberts, writing his second opinion since joining the court, said that religious freedom cases can be difficult "but Congress has determined that courts should strike sensible balances."




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Re: bush loses.. SCOTUS legalizes ayahuasca... [Re: Annapurna1]
    #5323712 - 02/21/06 11:23 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

"Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice John Roberts, moved decisively to keep the government out of a church's religious practice.

"Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision."


Thank You President George Bush for nominating Chief Justice Roberts!!!!


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Re: bush loses.. SCOTUS legalizes ayahuasca... [Re: lonestar2004]
    #5323778 - 02/21/06 11:51 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I just read this on one of the liberal blogs I subscribe to, and it gave me hope. Rastafarians - Fight for your religious right to toke the smoke! I may have to convert.


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Re: bush loses.. SCOTUS legalizes ayahuasca... [Re: Annapurna1]
    #5324107 - 02/21/06 01:43 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Unanimous? That's excellent.

I expected that they would win, since to refuse this one would be contradictory to the very similar case with the Natives and their peyote, but I never would've guessed they would've been unanimous on the issue.


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Re: bush loses.. SCOTUS legalizes ayahuasca... [Re: Annapurna1]
    #5324734 - 02/21/06 04:45 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

So you post this as an admission of your being wrong about the new neo cons in SCOTUS who want to put cameras in our homes and chips in our minds, or whatever rant you were on that day?


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Re: bush loses.. SCOTUS legalizes ayahuasca... [Re: MisterMyco]
    #5329667 - 02/22/06 09:37 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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who want to put cameras in our homes and chips in our minds




Give it time..


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