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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson)
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Subject: Re: Sunday closings and Saturday suffering
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 16:28:01 EDT
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> Sunday is a day of legally enforced boredom.  Saturday is hell, because

There is a city law here in Greensboro, NC, which forces businesses
to close between 10:30am and 1:00pm on Sunday.  My, what a convenient
time for (Christian) churchgoers!  This is done for the usual reasons;
everybody needs a day off, unfair to make everyone stay open for
competitive reasons, etc.  HOWEVER, people who go to church like
to eat dinner out after they get out of church.  It is very hard for
a restaurant to gear up within 5 minutes and have lunch ready at 1:05,
even if the churchgoers were willing to wait that long.  So, naturally,
restaurants are exempted; with the explanation that some people can
only eat in restaurants etc. etc.  Gas stations, however, are NOT
exempted and must close (i.e., it isn't very far to your neighborhood
church).  Our neighboring small town of High Point last year struck
down a similar law; it can only be hoped that Greensboro will do
likewise.

Watching them take the 'free' out of enterprise,
-- 

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