From steve.petrica at gmail.com Fri Aug 13 20:31:05 2010 From: steve.petrica at gmail.com (Steve Petrica) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:31:05 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] St. Joseph Abbey's monks battle for right to sell caskets Message-ID: Forgive a bit of a tangent, but I came across this news item today. St Joseph's Abbey in Covington has been cited by the Louisiana Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors for selling coffins without a license. (Savor the absurdity of that for a moment...) They've now filed suit in response, alleging that the law in question is unconstitutional. The Times-Picauyne story about the suit: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/08/st_joseph_abbey_battles_state.html Here's a brief YouTube video on the case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NxtGzsGtJc Steve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: