AFAIK, there are still some tribes (the Native American Church?) that are allowed to use peyote in rituals. I think this was codified in the 70s.
IIRC it is done primarily by Navajo and other tribes in the southwest of the US.
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The Supreme Court had treated the act as a dead letter, so Oregon could still fire Alfred Smith for using Peyote.
Then Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and amended the AIRFA to explicitly permit peyote use among Native Americans.
Peyote use for religious purposes stretches back many thousands of years,
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(02)08701-9/fulltext
but its use in Oregon is probably contemporaneous with the spread of the Native American Church, a far younger tradition.
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We need to bring back this little guy, and strike some fear into the hearts of the fundamentalists.
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A little disappointed they aren’t having the TX legislature declared an instrument of cruelty and disbarred here, but it’s Baphomet and they want to win.
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Except that the ordeal of bitter water is a placebo, and miscarriages are common. It was just a way to get a suspicious husband to shut the fuck up. Drink a harmless but gross thing, keep the baby, and move on. Drink a harmless thing, experience the tragedy of a miscarriage, and move on, God has taken action and the case is closed.
I’m a rampant 100% supporter of abortion rights. But that bible thing isn’t what it sounds like.
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