Which also led to the “Lukumi Bar”, an actual legal term that sounds like the name of a tiki bar.
Basically, the city of Hialeah tried to ban the Lukumi church (alternate name for Santeria). The language of the law was neutral on its surface (banned slaughtering of animals in the city, but made exceptions for kosher, hunting, fishing, etc.). However, the transcripts of the town meetings around the law revealed it was pointed straight at the Lukumi church, like applauding the fact that they were banned in Cuba. Which maybe should have been a red flag to everyone at the time.
Since the Supreme Court hadn’t yet been taken over by knaves, they told the city of Hialeah to go pound sand. You can’t make a “neutral” law that carves out enough exceptions that it targets one specific group. And if you do, don’t be so obvious about it at your city council meetings.
Which also led to the “Lukumi Bar”, an actual legal term that sounds like the name of a tiki bar.
Basically, the city of Hialeah tried to ban the Lukumi church (alternate name for Santeria). The language of the law was neutral on its surface (banned slaughtering of animals in the city, but made exceptions for kosher, hunting, fishing, etc.). However, the transcripts of the town meetings around the law revealed it was pointed straight at the Lukumi church, like applauding the fact that they were banned in Cuba. Which maybe should have been a red flag to everyone at the time.
Since the Supreme Court hadn’t yet been taken over by knaves, they told the city of Hialeah to go pound sand. You can’t make a “neutral” law that carves out enough exceptions that it targets one specific group. And if you do, don’t be so obvious about it at your city council meetings.