Some people are willing to break the law in order to maintain the purity of their religious practices and habits. A group of ten Amish men in Mayfield, Kentucky was jailed for contempt of court. The issue stemmed from their refusal to pay fines ranging from $153 to $627 for disregarding the law requiring horse-drawn buggies to be marked with reflective triangular orange signs on their rears. For their deliberate protest of the law, Judge Deborah Crooks sentenced them 3 to 13 days of jail. First to be sentenced and jailed was Ananias Byler, who got ten days. Even while being jailed, the Amish men refused the showy orange jumpsuits, insisting on wearing drab gray ones. All of the ten men are part of the Swartzentruber group, an extremely conservative breakaway sect of the Amish. Jacob Gingerich, the speaker of the group, said that they would break the law again.
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