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From: rose@sdcsvax.UUCP (Daniel Rose)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: Violation of separation church and state????
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 18:51:37 EDT
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I am originally from Massachusetts, where Blue Laws were in effect
until two years ago.  There are still some left, for instance a
store cannot sell liquor on Sunday.  It used to be that most stores
couldn't be open at all.

Anyway, there was a famous supreme court case (I don't remember the
name) in which a kosher market wanted to stay open Sunday, but close
Saturday, since that's the Jewish sabbath.  The court ruled that
they could indeed do this without violating the intent of the blue
laws.  It still seems like a violation of church and state separation
to say, "you have to close on someone's sabbath, even if it's not
mine."  What if you're an atheist, or your religion has no sabbath,
or whatever?

Dan Rose
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