Today the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a divided en banc decision of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a case brought by O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Unial Do Vegetal seeking a preliminary injunction to allow it to import hoasca for sacramental use. Plaintiffs sought an injunction against the United States under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that was previously invalidated as it applied to states, but is still valid as it applies to the federal government. The 10th Circuit en banc came to the same final result as an earlier decision by a divided 3-judge panel, all agreeing that a preliminary injunction should be granted. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case in its next term that begins in October 2005.
Monday, April 18, 2005
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The appeals court rightly ruled in favor of the church, and the Supremes should have thrown the Bush administration's appeal in the crapper. Instead, they are going to hear the case, and they ought to rule decisively on the side of freedom.
The church should win this case, of course. It's about the right to control one's own consciousness. What's more fundamental than that? How can anyone possibly argue that there is a constitutional right to rip apart a baby in your womb, but not a constitutional right to do as you please with your own mind? Asshats!
I took hoasca (ayahuasca) prepared by a shaman in the Peruvian Amazon a few years back, and it was one of the most incredible trips of my life.
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