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Court Rules in Favor of Amish Farmer....

Submitted by editorkevin on 10 March 2010 - 10:56am

An Amish farmer in Wisconsin challenged the state's new livestock registration program in court and has come away victorious. The new program would tag all commercial livestock in the Badger State with a numerical code so that disease outbreaks could quickly be traced and tamped down. But the Amish farmer saw it differently. The farmer invoked his religious rights claiming that this amounted to too much government intrusion and that the numbers could represent the "mark of the beast." Courts have traditionally helped sort out the murky middle where government needs and religious reason overlap. And in this case the judge was persuaded that the farmer's religious convictions truly would make this ID system untenable. So, in this instance, I think the Court did exactly what they are intended to do which is to umpire a dispute. Click here to read more about the outcome of the case.

Re: Court Rules in Favor of Amish Farmer....

Submitted by KJuneBug on 10 March 2010 - 12:29pm.

Biblical clarafication is needed here also; the "beast" refered to in Revelations 13, is the "False Prophet" whose role is to bring people to the first beast, Satan, not animals of the land. The study notes in my "Nelson" KJV Study Bible state: Only unbelievers will be recieve the mark of the beast. The "mark" will be placed on the right hand or on the forehead, both very visible places."

This section of the Bible is not refering to the identification of livestock, rather it is refering to man.

As far as this law goes, I'm not real sure of the value of it, other than to track where livestock have been. There are probably more pressing matters, like better funding for farmers, so that they can do their job and provide for their own families too.