[mc5cents]

They have as much right to the roads as anybody else. There is nothing in the Bible, or the Constitution, which says that people in motorized vehicles have more rights than those in horse-drawn ones, or bicycles, or pedestrians

You know you are right! There is not a darn thing in the Bible to cover this. The Constitution is silent on this issue also. So I guess those people can just chug along in their black horse and carriage as they will. Oh, but when that car comes around that bend in the road at 35-40 MPH and can't see that black carriage going about 5 MPH and rams into the back of it and kills all the people in the carriage and perhaps the horse too, well that is just too bad eh?

[One Name]

I travel thru Amish Country on occasion, Mennonite as well.

I live in the country. I drive like there could be a herd of black angus cattle escaped on the road in the dark in the fog, or a combine over the hill, old an old dude on a tractor around the curve I can’t see, or someone’s kid on a bicycle.

How do you interact with your neighbors?

[hellbender]

Anyone who drives a motorized vehicle has a legal and moral obligation to preserve the lives of others on the road. We are supposed to pull over to allow an ambulance to pass. We are supposed to come to a dead stop to let kids leave a school bus and cross the road safely. Your "right" to speed down the road seems pretty petty to me by comparison. Leave these peaceful, self-sufficient, Christian people alone. If we all lived by their values, our nation would not have all the problems it does.

If you really think that the Amish are a problem, you are probably on the wrong forum. You should move over to DU or Daily Kos.