 Even though they are still on the books, these provisions have been rendered unenforceable by U.S. Supreme Court decisions.With reference to the use of animals, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the cases of the "Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah" in 1993 upheld the right of Santeria adherents to practice ritual animal sacrifice with Justice Anthony Kennedy stating in the decision, "religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent or comprehensible to others in order to merit First Amendment protection".