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November 14, 2011

AP: Amish man says buggy signs conflict with religion

by Dylan Lovan
The Associated Press

Amish men facing jail time in western Kentucky for failing to display orange triangles on their horse-drawn buggies say they have "a conscientious objection" to using the required signs.

One of the men, John Hostetler, filed a handwritten paper in Graves County District Court on Monday providing reasons why he and others reject the slow-moving vehicle signs. The men belong to a conservative sect of Amish called Old Order Swartzentruber.

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