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From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: Sunday sales of cars <and booze>
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 13:54:28 EDT
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>It is now illegal (within the last 90 days) to sell cars/other-motor-vehicles
>on Sunday in Illinois.  The discussions at the time the law was being argued
>did not ever seem to discuss the issues of church.  They proponants (largely
>car salesmen) said that allowing the dealers to stay open seven days made all
>dealers stay open seven days in order to remain competitive, and since car
>salesmen are almost exclusively commission-only paid, this meant that most
>car salespeople were having to work seven days a week.  Thus the car salespeople
>made it into a labor vs. management issue.

I have the answer!!!  Make it illegal for a business to stay open 7
days a week.  Don't specify a particular day, though.  That way,
the employees will have their day off,  customers will be able to
purchase merchandise whenever they want to, and nobody will be able to
complain about separation of church and state.  Surprised nobody
thought of that one, eh?

          Ben Broder
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