http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23124/monkey-meat http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23124/monkey-meat#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:36:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23124 A Liberian woman accused of smuggling endangered monkey meat from Africa to New York has failed to persuade a judge that she shouldn't be prosecuted because she needed the butchered carcasses for religious reasons.

The judge also noted that her claim didn't address the main point of the criminal charge: That she hadn't applied for the permits needed to import such exotic foodstuffs and had misled border officials about what she was shipping into the country.

Nothing in her religion, Dearie wrote, "required her to abstain from truthful completion of paperwork." ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23124/monkey-meat/feed 0