Nine Amish men from western Kentucky have asked the state Supreme Court to overturn their convictions for failing to display bright safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies.
The men’s lawyers filed the appeal with the Kentucky Supreme Court.
The men, all members of the strict Old Order Swartzentruber Amish sect, object to the triangles because their garish colors violated their modesty code.
The men want the state to honor their strict religious convictions, which they say prohibit them from using the safety triangles in good conscience, The Courier-Journal reported.
The men were convicted in 2008, in two separate Graves District Court trials, of failing to display the triangles, which state law requires on buggies and certain other slow-moving vehicles. The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld the convictions June 3.
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