Burying Monks Under Unjust Laws

In the 1960s, Louisiana made it a crime to sell "funeral merchandise" without a funeral director's license. To get one, the monks would have to stop being monks: They would have to earn 30 hours of college credit and apprentice for a year at a licensed funeral home to acquire skills they have no intention of using. And their abbey would have to become a "funeral establishment" with a parlor accommodating 30 people, and an embalming facility even though they just want to make rectangular boxes, not handle cadavers.