Nebraska Court Rules Clairvoyance Licensing Violates Religious Freedom
The question whether the practice of “clairvoyance” can properly be regulated by State law, like the practice of medicine, was passed upon recently in a Nebraska court, and the court decided that the State could not require a license from clairvoyant “physicians.” The court’s position is that clairvoyance is embraced in Spiritualism, which is a religion; and that “because Spiritualism was professed by so few and derided by so many, did not divest it of its religious character, and that any attempt at regulation was interference with the rights of conscience and religious freedom.” The case was backed by the State Spiritualist Association, and attracted an unusual degree of attention.