An inmate at the Lansing Correctional Institute won a round in court against the state Corrections Department over claims that the state is denying him the right to express his faith as a member of a church which practices the sacramental ingestion of peyote.
A three-member panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals reinstated the lawsuit brought by Clinton Lee McKinney, who claimed that the state violated his right to freely exercise his religion as a member of the Native American Church.
The Native American Church of Jesus Christ is a spiritual movement that integrates the teachings of Christian . . .
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