Wikipedia's article on Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, community-edited. Reliable for the city of Hialeah, Florida passing three ordinances in September 1987 criminalizing "sacrifices of animals for any type of ritual, regardless of whether or not the flesh or blood of the animal is to be consumed," while exempting kosher slaughter, ordinary slaughterhouses, hunting, fishing and pest control; for the ordinances following the announced opening of a Santeria church in the city; and for the United States Supreme Court's unanimous ruling on 11 June 1993, written by Justice Kennedy, that the ordinances violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment because they targeted religious conduct specifically while exempting comparable secular conduct. The article states the Court's own words, that "religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent or comprehensible to others in order to merit First Amendment protection."
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3, summarizing a public United States Supreme Court decision. Used for the 1987 ordinance dates and the 11 June 1993 unanimous ruling, both stated plainly in the article's own text; the article covers the court case as public legal history and names no initiation or priesthood procedure. NotesUsed for the 1993 Supreme Court ruling protecting Santeria's ritual animal sacrifice from a targeted municipal ban.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Lukumi_Babalu_Aye_v._City_of_Hialeah
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