"O Lord", and other tales...

Greetings readers! 

There are times when I reflect on what a great nation we live in, what an example for the rest of the world, where the individual is protected, where we can say what we want to, and where we can practice whatever religion we choose.

And then I read stories like these, and it it's off to the Saloon for a double date with Maker and Mark.

8-10-06 "Sarah Yule was fired as a receptionist at St. Mary's Hospital in Troy, N.Y., earlier this year because she refused to remove her lip ring at work, which she said was integral to her religion, the Church of Body Modification. Yule insisted that her several piercings are spiritual, giving her control over her body, and she declined to accept an alternate job at St. Mary's, away from public contact."

8-16-06 "Joseph Butts is in jail in Franklin County, Mo., the result of being caught with 338 pounds of marijuana in a traffic stop, but according to an August St. Louis Post-Dispatch report, he informed the arresting officer that hassling him would be a "hate crime" because he was a special courier transporting religious instruments between member monasteries of the Church of Cognizance, which uses marijuana as a sacrament."

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[Dave!]

Americans might be many things, but no one can say we aren't creative!