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...Justices will hear arguments next month in the case of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, a Santeria congregation led by Ernesto Pichardo that held its services in a former used-car dealership in Hialeah. Worried about the city's image, irate animal-rights activists, community leaders and politicians united to pass an anti-sacrifice ordinance in 1987. For animal-rights groups, it was a natural extension of long-established laws on animal cruelty or of more recent crusades to halt animal research...
Despite the oddity of animal sacrifice to most Americans, mainstream religious groups have weighed in to support the Lukumi Babalu Aye church. Jewish organizations fear that Hialeah's law might rule out kosher slaughtering. Christian groups like the Presbyterian Church and National Association of Evangelicals want to prevent the Supreme Court from further restricting religious rights. Complains attorney Oliver Thomas of the Baptist Joint Committee: "The American public has a hard time seeing beyond the dead chickens...
While most academics fill their books with arcane reference and convoluted lingo, hooks is fresh, direct and comprehensible; she is probably the only feminist theorist and cultural critic who quotes Marvin Aye often as Michel Foucault...
Lowering his voice, he admits he wants to join the I.R.A. Would he be willing to commit murder? "Kill Orangemen and Brits, aye," he says with relish. He pauses, then once again lowers his voice. "But I wouldn't kill one of my own." One of his I.R.A. uncles was killed by one of his own, shot through the head for acting as an informant. Chuckie is always mindful of that...