United States: the Supreme Court protects animal sacrifice as religious practice — the corpus's boundary marker

Proceedings

1. 1993-06-11 · unanimous judgment for the church

   Supreme Court of the United States — Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993). The Supreme Court unanimously struck down City of Hialeah ordinances that targeted Santería animal sacrifice, holding that laws burdening religious practice must be neutral and generally applicable and that these ordinances were neither. Animal sacrifice as practised in Santería is constitutionally protected religious exercise in the United States.

Documented coercion mechanisms

• none — this record exists to mark where lawful religious practice ends and abuse begins