The Amish Cook from Oasis Newsfeatures

The controversy in an Iowa Old Order Mennonite settlement over the use of steel wheels continues to grind along through the court system.  The attorney for a 13-year-old Mennonite boy cited under the new anti-steel wheel ordinance in Mitchell County, Iowa is appealing his fine claiming religious rights violations.  The Old Order Amish and their Mennonite brethren typically are not a litigious people, but they will use the courts to challenge issues of religious freedom.  The Old Order Mennonites in Mitchell County use steel-wheeled tractors on small stretches of county roads. I've said before - and I'll continue to say - that this issue is one screaming for a "compromise", it should never have made it into the court system.  A neighboring Iowa County has a fund that "plain people" pay into to compensate the county for any road damage inflicted by buggies, but Mitchell County supervisors have rejected such a plan.  It just seems like something could have been worked out, but instead this will probably grind it's way all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court.  Click here to read the latest.