“Santeria priest won’t let religious freedom be sacrificed”
Richard Fausset reports in the LA Times:
Soon thereafter, word of the raid made its way to the great defender of Santeria in the United States. That would be Ernesto Pichardo — high priest, physical extension of the fire spirit Shango and co-founder of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, the first incorporated Santeria church in the nation.
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I still shudder at this kind of thing, but note that the Christian legal group representing Mrs. Barrow, a teacher at Grenville, Texas, our county seat, when the school district punished ehr for sending her own child to the local Christian school rather than their public school pwhich has been rated “unacceptable” five years in a row] cited the Babalou Aye case spearheaded by the Santeria priest subject of this story, in its winning brief in support of Mrs. Barrow’s Christian religious liberty.