As Amish communities expand across the US, old practices are colliding with modern health codes and testing the limits of religious freedom ...
Religious freedom vs. 'gray water.' AP explains ruling favoring Amish families who shun septic tanks
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This April 10, 2002 photo shows Amish buggies of the Swartzentrubers Amish sect parked outside the Ebensburg, Pa., ...
TOWN OF FRANKLIN, Wis. — Daniel Borntreger’s home looks like hundreds of other Wisconsin farmhouses: two-story A-frame, porch, clothes on the line. But his home could cost him thousands of ...
Copies of Old Order Amish legal filings challenging Sugar Grove Township’s attempts to force the Amish to hook up to sewer lines are pictured. Times Observer file photo After years of legal wrangling, ...
During the past 18 months, at least 18 legal actions brought against Amish in N.Y., Wisc. Custom-built homes are allowed in Wisconsin as long as the plans meet code standards, but apparently the Amish ...
Religious freedom vs. 'gray water.' AP explains ruling favoring Amish families who shun septic tanks
A long-running religious freedom case has come full circle, with a court ruling this week that a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota cannot be threatened with the loss of homes if its ...
These cases pit post-pandemic public health fears against religious freedom – a defense the Amish have long invoked. “Sometimes to me it seems like a valid argument,” said Erik Wesner, a chronicler of ...
Religious freedom vs. ‘gray water.’ AP explains ruling favoring Amish families who shun septic tanks
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A long-running religious freedom case has ...
Religious freedom vs. ‘gray water.’ AP explains ruling favoring Amish families who shun septic tanks
A long-running religious freedom case has come full circle, with court ruling this week that a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota cannot be threatened with the loss of homes if its ...
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