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== EDITORIAL- Common interests- Religion shouldnt trump == | |||
<html>Norman Maclean famously began his novel, A River Runs Through It, with this line: In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. | |||
Maclean s little book carried ideas and emotions powerful enough to make it an enduring national best seller. In Alaska during the past year, we ve watched as people employ powerful ideas and emotions that also equate fishing and religion. | |||
In Alaska s case, though, those who blur the line do so not to entertain readers but to immunize the fisherman against prosecution for violating rules. A judge last week said he couldn t grant such immunity, and he made the right decision. | |||
Last summer, dozens of Yup ik fishermen set their standard nets for king salmon in the Kuskokwim River during periods when the state had closed fishing and reduced net mesh sizes to protect the scarce fish. About 60 were charged. In court this winter, attorneys for some of the fishermen argued that they had a religious right to ignore the state rules. | |||
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This argument has some well-established legal footing in Alaska. In 1975, the state charged Carlos Frank,[http://218.108.81.184/ckgdcz/review.asp?NewsID=254 UN's adviser on sports diplomacy visits NKorea], who lived in Minto, 40 miles west of Fairbanks, for shooting a moose out of season to supply a funeral potlatch. | |||
Frank was prosecuted and convicted,[http://www.tnzk.org/blog/2010/05/post-167.html#comments Week in Review- April 13], but the Alaska Supreme Court reversed that conviction in 1979 after deciding the potlatch was a religious ceremony. No value has a higher place in our constitutional system of government than that of religious freedom. The freedom to believe is protected absolutely, the court said. | |||
However, the court firmly asserted that belief is different from action. The freedom to act on one s religious beliefs is also protected, but such protection may be overcome by compelling state interests, it said. | |||
In the Frank case, the court said, the state s worries about unregulated moose hunting were not compelling enough to justify a blanket prohibition on shooting an occasional moose to supply a funeral potlatch. It suggested the state set up a system to allow the practice, which since has been done. | |||
In contrast,[http://cn-thinker.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=934185 Ma hardn increajua harddeboraha hard analysis explanations a hardfchargbilw raft], Magistrate Bruce Ward, ruling in the Kuskokwim fishing case, decided the state does have a compelling interest in limiting king salmon fishing with nets. For reasons that are not well understood, king salmon runs have been extremely poor in the Kuskokwim and elsewhere. The state must limit the harvest so enough fish escape to spawn in the streams far upriver. If it doesn t, the problem will just get worse. | |||
One might ask whether the state should set up some sort of mechanism to allow a few king salmon to be taken for religious purposes. Like the potlatch moose exemption, it could be workable; however, it probably wouldn t satisfy the fishermen. | |||
They assert that the religious act threatened by the state s regulation is not, as in the Frank case, an occasional ceremony but rather is the regular catch of king salmon. Perhaps so after all, if a fly fisherman can find religion in pestering trout, surely the experience of sustaining one s family by netting king salmon from Alaska s rivers drips with spirituality. | |||
Nevertheless, the supremacy of the compelling state interest is not the enemy of this religion. In the end, it s the very thing that protects the fishermen because to ignore it would endanger the fish upon which their religious experience depends.</html> | |||
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House of Commons passes law to legalize mixed martial arts
<html>House of Commons passes law to legalize mixed martial arts{eot}The Canadian Press6/5/2013 4:27:54 PMText SizeOTTAWA -- The House of Commons has passed a bill legalizing contact sports such as mixed martial arts. The legislation, which originated in the Senate, takes certain fighting sports, including taekwondo and karate as well as the popular sport of MMA, out of legal limbo. The sports were not technically covered under prize-fighting law, making it difficult to regulate them and protect the safety of fighters. The bill passed the Commons easily with 267 members of parliament in favour and only nine opposed. The Criminal Code section on prize-fighting was last changed in 1934, long before the rise of the new fighting sports. Section 83.1 of the Criminal Code only exempted boxing. The section said anyone who engages as a principal in a prize fight, encourages, promotes or is present at a prize fight as an aid, second, surgeon, umpire, backer or reporter is guilty of an offence -- unless the boxing contest is held with the permission or under the authority of an athletic board or commission or similar body established by or under the authority of the legislature of a province for the control of sport within the province. The section also allowed a boxing contest between amateur sportsmen,Experimental Saturday sessions could be another step toward, where the contestants wear boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass. Some jurisdictions ignored the antiquated wording of the law. The UFC, the largest promoter of MMA fighting, lobbied for the legislative change. As it has done in the U.S., the UFC has pushed for government to sanction the sport.
This is a major development for the sport of mixed martial arts as we now have a consistent legislative framework for Canada and its provinces, Tom Wright, the UFC's director of Canadian operations, said in a statement.
Liberal Massimo Pacetti,UNLV verbal commit Dwayne Morgan- 'Rebels for life', who supported the bill, said it's an important move.
We are laying the groundwork for the general acceptance of these sports across the country, he said during the debate.
Supporters say MMA bouts are no more dangerous than boxing matches. Others say they may be safer, because MMA fighters can quit when they want, while boxers tend to fight until there's a knockout or the referee steps in. Since 2008, the UFC has hosted 12 Canadian events split between Montreal (six), Toronto (three), Vancouver (two) and Calgary (one). Winnipeg is set to host UFC 161 on June 15. The Edmonton-based Maximum Fighting Championship is the largest Canadian promoter. In most jurisdictions,[1], MMA is regulated by the same athletic bodies that oversee boxing. Currently,San Diego Chargers 17 RIVERS dark blue Jerseys, MMA is sanctioned at a provincial level in British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, while it has been sanctioned on a municipal level within Alberta, New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories.</html>
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Maclean s little book carried ideas and emotions powerful enough to make it an enduring national best seller. In Alaska during the past year, we ve watched as people employ powerful ideas and emotions that also equate fishing and religion. In Alaska s case, though, those who blur the line do so not to entertain readers but to immunize the fisherman against prosecution for violating rules. A judge last week said he couldn t grant such immunity, and he made the right decision. Last summer, dozens of Yup ik fishermen set their standard nets for king salmon in the Kuskokwim River during periods when the state had closed fishing and reduced net mesh sizes to protect the scarce fish. About 60 were charged. In court this winter, attorneys for some of the fishermen argued that they had a religious right to ignore the state rules. Fishing for food is not just an economic activity but also a religious one,Nike Rams 8 Bradford Pink Fem Fan Women Elite Jerseys, the fishermen said, and therefore the government had no authority to stop them. They cited not only the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution but also Article 1, Section 4 of the Alaska Constitution, which states that No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This argument has some well-established legal footing in Alaska. In 1975, the state charged Carlos Frank,UN's adviser on sports diplomacy visits NKorea, who lived in Minto, 40 miles west of Fairbanks, for shooting a moose out of season to supply a funeral potlatch. Frank was prosecuted and convicted,Week in Review- April 13, but the Alaska Supreme Court reversed that conviction in 1979 after deciding the potlatch was a religious ceremony. No value has a higher place in our constitutional system of government than that of religious freedom. The freedom to believe is protected absolutely, the court said. However, the court firmly asserted that belief is different from action. The freedom to act on one s religious beliefs is also protected, but such protection may be overcome by compelling state interests, it said. In the Frank case, the court said, the state s worries about unregulated moose hunting were not compelling enough to justify a blanket prohibition on shooting an occasional moose to supply a funeral potlatch. It suggested the state set up a system to allow the practice, which since has been done. In contrast,Ma hardn increajua harddeboraha hard analysis explanations a hardfchargbilw raft, Magistrate Bruce Ward, ruling in the Kuskokwim fishing case, decided the state does have a compelling interest in limiting king salmon fishing with nets. For reasons that are not well understood, king salmon runs have been extremely poor in the Kuskokwim and elsewhere. The state must limit the harvest so enough fish escape to spawn in the streams far upriver. If it doesn t, the problem will just get worse. One might ask whether the state should set up some sort of mechanism to allow a few king salmon to be taken for religious purposes. Like the potlatch moose exemption, it could be workable; however, it probably wouldn t satisfy the fishermen. They assert that the religious act threatened by the state s regulation is not, as in the Frank case, an occasional ceremony but rather is the regular catch of king salmon. Perhaps so after all, if a fly fisherman can find religion in pestering trout, surely the experience of sustaining one s family by netting king salmon from Alaska s rivers drips with spirituality. Nevertheless, the supremacy of the compelling state interest is not the enemy of this religion. In the end, it s the very thing that protects the fishermen because to ignore it would endanger the fish upon which their religious experience depends.</html>