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March 15, 2012

AP: Amish bring religious freedom argument to Supreme Court, say buggy sign violates their faith

by Dylan Lovan
The Associated Press

FRANKFORT, KY. (AP) - A group of Amish men who have spent time in jail for refusing to use a reflective symbol on their horse-drawn buggies asked the Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday to grant them a religious exemption from using the orange triangles.

More than a dozen Amish men from Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee dressed in dark pants, vests and wide-brimmed hats attended the hearing before the state's highest court to hear attorneys argue the religious freedom issue.

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