Now this is why i didnt want to get involved in the legal status. No one has been prosecuted (to my knowledge) on purim recently for this. The police is well aware of it and they are not interested in getting involved. There is also the question of whether such laws would even be legal because of religious freedom although employment division v. smith probably would if the present supreme court considers that precedent. None of the case law that has been cited has anything to do with religious freedom probably because catholics would run afoul of this with First Communion as would many other religions im sure. Either way its irrelevant – if there is a chiyuv for minors to drink wine – there is no dina dmalchusa plain and simple (even if dina dmalchusa applied in this case – which it doesn’t).
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