In religious dispute, Kentucky Amish men jailed for not using reflective triangles on buggies

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51. If this were just about their safety, then I think they should be allowed an exemption.

Frankly, I don't think that exemption would fall in line with the other type of safety laws that we have in effect, but I still think it would be OK...if it were just for their safety.

It's not.

I grew up near a rather large Amish settlement. They drove their buggies on the same roads the rest of use, just like this situation. I know what happens when a car rear ends a horse-drawn buggy, and after that accident the Amish started putting detachable reflective orange triangles on the back of their buggies before getting on the road.

It's not right to subject your six-year-old daughter to a horrible death by the crushing of her ribcage just because your religion objects to a color. It's not right to subject another couple to death-by-horse-through-windshield just because your religion objects to a color. The Amish people around my old stomping grounds had to learn that the hard way, and I hope no one else does.