Measure To Protect Religious Freedom Passes

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The state Senate on Thursday cleared a proposed state constitutional amendment that would limit government's right to intervene in religious matters. The measure sponsored by Senator Jimmy Higdon, a Lebanon Republican, passed the Senate by a vote of 34-4. Higdon said it was ironic that on the same day the Senate was voting on the proposed amendment, the Kentucky Supreme Court was hearing a case involving some Amish men in western Kentucky who were arrested for refusing to use orange reflectors on their horse-drawn buggies because the triangular shape and the bright color are offensive to their religious beliefs. The Senate has passed a bill that would let the Amish cover their buggies with reflective silver tape rather than use the triangular signs, and the House is considering a similar measure.