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From: atkins@opus.UUCP (Brian Atkins)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Sunday shopping
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 18:14:15 EDT
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>From: reg@whuxl.UUCP (Gunderman)
>Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany

>I have been ignoring the articles that have come by re this subject, but
>I read one today and felt the urge to make a comment or statement.
>
>To those who are opposed to Sunday closing laws, I say fine - as long as all
>those wonderful and exciting stores are in YOUR town and not mine. I live in
>Paramus, NJ, where we are crowded with those "wonderful" shopping centers, and >we have plenty of reason to oppose Sunday shopping: packed highways and back
>roads, excess pollution from vehicles, more of the shoplifters that jam our
>Wednesday night court (after all, shoplifters may not be able to practice
>their trade during the weekdays), more traffic accidents, enlarged police
>and fire depts, enlarged road maintenance crews, increased sewage requirements,
>busy volunteer ambulance corps, etc. My suggestion
>is create a massive shopping area in some remote, wide open area (far from me)
>where all the "consumers" can shop to their heart's content and great
>excitement, gulping junk food and buying all those "necessary" articles,
>before they go out of style next week.
>
>Using caricatures of Sunday-shopping apponents as blue-nosed proponents
>of old-fashioned Blue laws who want to impose their (Christian) beliefs on
>everyone else is a lot of fertilizer. There are other reasons. Six days a
>week and 12 to 14 hours a day is  ample time to shop - or gulp junk food, buy
>the style of the week article, "play", etc, at the shopping center in
>in ANOTHER TOWN, such as in Nanuet, NY, where they have what amounts to a
>parking lot on a portion of Route 59 on Sunday.

So what your saying is that I should not be allowed to shop on Sunday because
YOU feel: "Six days a week and 12 to 14 hours a day is  ample time to shop."

I like the idea of reducing shoplifting by closing the stores, though,
very clever.  I don't know what I like less, living under laws based on 
other people's religious beliefs, or other people's stupid beliefs.                                                             
This isn't a discussion by people who want to shop in Sunday, but rather
by people that don't like other people telling them when they can shop, and
what they can shop for, especially when, but not limited to when, it is based
on the other people's religion. (phew)

Brian Atkins   ...{attunix, hao, allegra, ucbvax}!nbires!atkins
NBI Inc., P.O. Box 9001, Boulder CO 80301	(303) 444-5710