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Soothsaying Returns to Livingston: Parish Yields to Court Striking Down Prohibition on Palm Reading, Clairvoyance, “And the Like”

300px-viscontisforzatarotI predict palm readers will soon appear in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Alright, I had a little help from a federal court in New Orleans. A court has ruled that the parish prohibition on soothsaying, fortune telling, palm reading, clairvoyance, crystal ball gazing, mind reading, card reading “and the like” is unconstitutional. Now, the parish government has voted to rescind the law and allow the tarot cards to fall. Other cities are following suit in addressing these prohibitions.

The decision in Gryphon’s Nest Gifts, Inc. v. Parish of Livingston, (MD LA, Oct. 7, 2008) prompted the action. The ordinance was challenged by a business that caters to the spiritual and educational needs of Wiccans and other pagans. There are an estimated 100 Wiccan members of his faith residing in Livingston Parish.

I could have predicted the outcome of this case. It is shame that the parish decided to spend public money to advance such a weak case in federal court, but then again this may be the result of lacking both legal judgment and fortune telling capabilities. Now, they will have one of the two.

Livingston is not alone. St. Johnsbury, Vermont recently lifted its ban.

In Philadelphia, officials launched a crackdown on such businesses after discovering a little known law prohibiting soothsaying, palm reading etc.

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6 thoughts on “Soothsaying Returns to Livingston: Parish Yields to Court Striking Down Prohibition on Palm Reading, Clairvoyance, “And the Like””

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  2. It is good that the honest, hardworking Wiccans can make a living in Livingston Parrish. Malo, your oft repeated mantra sounds very much like the mantra of the terrorist that you quoted. Try sticking to the subject at hand. I know it is tough, but my fortune teller told me it was the right thing to do.
    Jill,
    Even fortune tellers need a “bailout” during these tough economic times.

  3. I couldn’t get to the link so I went to the Livingston Parrish News whereupon I spied a large ad for “Cretin Homes, since 1976”. I started to get twitches in the bumps on my head. Fortune telling is getting a boost from economic hard times. How can the Chamber (oooh, that sounds so pagan) of Commerce fail to “see” that this store is good for business?

  5. ‘I was told to kill to my last breath’: Captured terrorist’s account of Mumbai massacre reveals plan was to kill 5,000
    By Ian Gallagher

    The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given India the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last breath’.

    Azam Amir Kasab, 21, from Pakistan, said the attacks were meticulously planned six months ago and were intended to kill 5,000 people.

    “I have done right,’ he told investigators. ‘I have no regrets.’

    One source said: ‘He [Kasab] was telling our people this in a most dispassionate way and responded to the horror their faces betrayed by shrugging his shoulders.’

    Sources said tests on Kamal’s blood and urine showed he was under the influence of drugs to help keep him alert during the long battles with Indian security forces.

    WELL THEY SURE BETTER NOT TRY SUCH AN ATTACK LIKE THIS WHEN OBAMA IS PRESIDENT! EVERY TERRORIST IN THE WORLD FEARS GETTING PUT UNDER ARREST BY A LOCAL BEAT COP DURING THEIR KILLING RAGE. OBAMA IS GOING TO MAKE SURE EVERY LOCAL POLICE OFFICER HAS AN EXTRA SET OF HANDCUFFS AND AN EXTRA COPY OF THE “MIRANDA RIGHTS” HANDOUT. BOY, THOSE TERRORISTS ARE ALREADY QUAKING IN THEIR BOOTS OVER A PRESIDENT OBAMA.

  6. Interrogating the Survivor

    November 29, 2008

    Apparently only one of the Islamic terrorists who attacked Mumbai survived. He is now being interrogated by Indian authorities, and information about the attack is starting to emerge.

    The survivor is a Pakistani named Mohammad Ajmal Mohammad Amin Kasab. Kasab claims to be the person who murdered Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare and other policemen. Evidently there were only ten terrorists involved in the attack, which seems like a low number for the mayhem they caused and the time it took to kill them. Kasab says that five teams with two members each attacked a series of targets, to which they took taxis. I’m not really a gun guy, but I can’t help thinking that a few armed men here and there–citizens, if not security guards–would have been helpful.

    THIS POOR SURVIVOR NEEDS TO CALL JT! HE IS NO DOUBT BEING HARSHLY INTERROGATED AND HIS RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED! IT DOESN’T MATTER HE MAY HAVE INFORMATION ON ANOTHER PLOT TO MURDER HUNDREDS OF CIVILIANS! HE MAY HAVE BEEN UNLUCKY TO NOT HAVE BEEN CAPTURED BY AMERICAN FORCES IN WHICH CASE HE WOULD BE EATING WELL AND DRINKING TEA WHILE READING A KORAN AND WRITING LETTERS TO FAMILY IN GITMO!

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