'Priest' arrested after two human skulls and hundreds of pounds of animal flesh, blood and bones

[moobu2]

found in his shed in Utah..

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 8:01 AM on 16th March 2011

They arrived at the house to search for drugs after arresting three men for possessing methamphetamines.
But police in Clearfield, Utah got a grisly shock when they opened Roberto Casillas-Corrales's backyard shed to find two human skulls and several hundred pounds of animal bones, flesh and blood on the floor and walls.

The remains emitted a strong stench and were surrounded by candles and symbols to form a shrine.

The 53-year-old said it was part of a ritual for his Santeria religion, of which he is a 'santero', or priest.
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'He's been performing some type of ceremonies in his backyard shed, and that would include the sacrificing of animals, lambs, sheep, goats, rams and chickens.'





He told officials he had bought the skulls for religious purposes three years ago in Cuba, where they had been removed from grave sites.

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'I've heard them chanting and heard something like stones or sticks being thrown on the ground.'
According to ksl.com, investigators now have to decide whether the sacrifices are against the law or are allowed as a religious freedom.
Brian Barnard, a civil rights attorney, told ABC4: 'If somebody is using that in a legitimate religious practice there should be an exemption.
'The constitution protects religious rights.'


I missed this one, it's from last month.

[EmmettKelly]

1. Boom shaka laka

n/t

[Silent3]

4. deleted

(replied to wrong message)

[Teaser]

2. that cauldron looks more like Palo than Santeria.

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[Kurmudgeon]

3. Question is, who did the skulls belong to?

Not the kind of thing you leave on the shelf and not expect the local authorities to have questions.

[Teaser]

14. dug up from a grave in cuba, most likely

skulls exhumed from a grave are reputed to be very powerful in Santeria/Palo.

[Silent3]

5. "in a legitimate religious practice"

I believe in freedom of religion, but only in the sense that I believe in freedom of thought and freedom of expression and pretty much freedom to do anything that doesn't infringe upon an equal degree of freedom for everyone else, with religion getting no special higher or lower status among those freedoms.

I certainly don't won't my government involved in deciding what constitutes a "legitimate" religious practice, and what does not. I don't think I deserve more restricted freedom and more regulation under the law than someone else who makes up unprovable mystical stories, claims fervent belief in those stories, and somehow thus enjoys a special legal status that I don't qualify for.

[Frustratedlady]

6. What's different from sacrificing animals for religious purposes and

the torture animals go thru during dog and cock fighting? Both are cruel to the animals.

[Teaser]

15. slaughtered correctly

the animal will experience a lot less suffering than in a dog/cock fight.

Still not fun for the animal.

[Botany]

7. Pedro Cerrano?

Pedro Cerrano: Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.

[mysuzuki2]

9. screw you, Jobu!

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

8. Fuck you, Jobu, I do it myself.

[enki23]

10. Easy solution. Religious freedom is stupidly defined in this country.

We already acknowledge that your religion cannot grant you the right to murder, at one extreme. The question is where to draw the other line, the line that defines which rights your religion can grant you that people who do not practice your religion do not share. The real question, however, is why the hell do we have to draw that line at all? If we agree that your religion grants you the right to neglect your children (christian science, etc.) or to abuse animals in ways that other people cannot (santeria, arguably also judaism, islam, etc.), then why should someone's failure to profess your creed remove from them a right they otherwise might have held?

Do we have separate sets of rights, such that one's professed religion determines which set applies? What reasonable secular justification can we come up with for that one?

[peacetalksforall]

11. I assumed Catholic priest. They don't need this to stick for readers who only

read the captions.

[GKirk]

12. Well the word priest

was in quotes.

[ZombieHorde]

13. That is very Old Testament of him. nt