KILLING GOATS AT HOME IS A BASIC FREEDOM.

This article reports on Jose Merced, president of a Santeria congregation in Euless, Texas. Merced is suing the city for impinging on his religious freedom. Santeria is an amalgam of Christian and Afro-Cuban beliefs. But the city, responding to complaints from neighbors, has forbidden Merced from sacrificing chickens and goats in a residential home, which serves as the sect's church.