November is the Amish wedding season, and election day falls on a popular day to get married.
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Like the Amish, the Mennonites are Anabaptist, with strict religion-based values that keep them isolated in agricultural communities.
Usually, the Amish resolve disputes without involving law enforcement, but some Amish members reported the beard-cutting incidents to police.
Defense attorneys for the Amish are attacking the group's prosecution under the federal hate crime statute, passed in 2009.
Already, Mr Kerry's supporters have accused them of trying to exploit the Amish.
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Before trial, the Amish all rejected plea agreements that offered leniency, with some young mothers turning down a chance to avoid prison altogether.
They rejected that the Amish's placement in different prisons is cruel and unusual and said moving him would be a waste of taxpayer money.
To the Amish, a beard is a significant symbol of faith and manhood, and the way Amish women wear their hair also is a symbol of faith.
The argument that Feldman finds most interesting is that the prosecution of the Amish for a hate crime is an overly broad interpretation of the federal statute.
While many outsiders may view the Amish as monolithic, the study found sharp differences in such matters as civic engagement, farming practices and the use of modern technology.
"The Amish, " a 500-page overview of the Christian followers known for traditional dress and the use of horse-and-buggy transportation, identified 40 distinct groups and a variety of permitted practices.
The Amish argued that they're bound by rules guided by their religion and the government should never have gotten involved in what amounted to a family or church dispute.
The Amish "are being treated much more harshly than the typical federal prisoner, including those with much worse criminal histories and offense conduct, " Mullet's attorney, Edward Bryan, wrote in a March 29 filing.
By the 1960s, widespread vaccination campaigns had virtually eliminated polio from Europe and the U.S. Polio lingered in the U.S., mainly in the Amish population who refused to accept vaccinations, but it finally disappeared in 1979.
Bryan said that case, decided after the Amish were indicted, shows a willingness by the nation's highest court to narrow Congress' authority over interstate commerce, and could guide the 6th Circuit in its consideration of the Amish group's appeal.
For that last reason, and also because the Amish have come to welcome medical researchers who wish to study them for the edification of less well-disciplined examples of humanity, Dr Hsueh focused her endeavours in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where the Amish live.
The book and updated figures on Amish population were released ahead of a major international conference on the Amish and technology at Elizabethtown College, located about 20 miles southeast of Harrisburg in Lancaster County, the traditional heartland of Amish farming in the United States.
When young people get to their late teens or early 20s, they must decide whether to remain in the church and adopt its austere rules, and the researchers found more traditional Amish families currently experience defection rates of less than 6 percent, compared to about half of the children of the most progressive Amish.
Ohio and Pennsylvania are basically tied for the largest Amish populations, at about 65, 000, followed by Indiana, Wisconsin, New York and Michigan.
The filings in federal court in Akron seek the release of seven of 16 Amish convicted in September in the 2011 eastern Ohio attacks, which were meant to shame fellow Amish they believed were straying from strict religious interpretations.
And an Amish community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.
The Village Inn restaurant, in the heart of Amish Country, makes a silky slice of goodness.
It is an hour's drive east of Springfield, on a highway where cars sometimes share the road with Amish buggies.
Other award winners included Amish: A Secret Life, a portrait of the lives of Old Order Amish couple Miriam and David and their family, broadcast on BBC Two.
She said that the general perceptions of Amish eschewing technology are misunderstood.
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It has become the centerpiece of a reimagined pioneer village the Gettles created with the help of local Amish craftsmen and some handy family members.
The gene is called APOC3, and researchers found that 5 percent of the people they studied -- who were all Amish, in this case -- had the protective mutation, according to the report in Science.
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Data from two states, Indiana and Iowa, showed Amish students outperforming the state average in standardized tests.
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