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". (quoted by Justice Kennedy from the opinion by Justice Burger in "Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division" ) Likewise in Texas in 2009, issues that related to animal sacrifice and animal rights were taken to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of "Jose Merced, President Templo Yoruba Omo Orisha Texas, Inc., v. City of Euless." The court ruled that the free exercise of religion was meritorious and prevailing and that Merced was entitled under the Texas Religious Freedom and Restoration Act (TRFRA) to an injunction preventing the city of Euless, Texas from enforcing its ordinances that burdened his religious practices relating to the use of animals.