Amish man's letters sway lawmakers on buggy issue

Amish man's letters sway lawmakers on buggy issue - San Antonio Express-News: Jacob Gingerich, who has spent more than two weeks in jail for refusing to attach the bright orange slow-moving vehicle sign to the back of his drab horse-drawn buggy, explained in his hand-written letters to Kentucky lawmakers that the three-sided emblem represents the Holy Trinity. The Amish, he wrote, don't display religious symbols, and neither do they flaunt bright colors, including those of slow-moving vehicle emblems.

"The color of the emblem is fluorescent orange, and our church forbids the bright, loud and gaudy colors," he wrote. "Therefore, we cannot in good conscience use the slow-moving vehicle emblem."

Senators last week voted unanimously to pass a bill that would allow the Amish to outline their buggies in reflective tape, an accommodation already in place in several other states.

Editor: There's a lesson in this in relation to the contraception mandate. Note that the legislators learned to accommodate, rather than sit in judgment on a belief.

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