Court Upholds Church Use of Hallucinogenic Tea
Tech Angle: Who cares. I can only connect to my God under the influence of hallucinogenics, too. :-)
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that a small congregation in New Mexico may use hallucinogenic tea as part of a four-hour ritual intended to connect with God.
Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice John Roberts, moved decisively to keep the government out of a church’s religious practice. Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision.
The tea, which contains an illegal drug known as DMT, is considered sacred to members of O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, which has a blend of Christian beliefs and South American traditions. Members believe they can understand God only by drinking the tea, which is consumed twice a month at four-hour ceremonies.
posted by Fergie @ 2/21/2006 10:05:00 AM
1 Comments:
Anything for 'religous' freedom. When California's voted to allow the use of marijuana to releave pain when perscribed by a doctor the federal government said "no way, drugs are drugs". I guess it might be better for people suffering great pain to contact the priest and get him or her to perscribe the drug so the can better see God!
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