Newsgroups: ont.general Path: utzoo!utgpu!golchowy From: golchowy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) Subject: Re: Sunday shopping Message-ID: <1989Dec21.050833.8626@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Organization: UTCS Public Access References: <656@crk56.bnr.ca> <1989Dec20.175658.10717@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Distribution: ont Date: Thu, 21 Dec 89 05:08:33 GMT In article jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu writes: > >In article <1989Dec20.175658.10717@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> golchowy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes: > >GO> Sunday shopping does not force anyone to work on Sunday who >GO> doesn't want to work on Sunday. The law prohibiting Sunday >GO> shopping discriminates on the basis of religion and that is why it >GO> should be eliminated. > >I don't remember stating any religious reasons against Sunday >shopping. Why the big offensive on a side issue? > >The big issue here is the trust some people are willing to put in >employers to not force people to work on Sunday or to not discriminate >based on a willingness to work on Sunday. That kind of trust requires >a lot of faith. I disagree...the BIG issue is that the state is making laws that discriminate on the basis of religion. This should be in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If you don't trust you're employer, you don't have to work for him or her...this is a free country. -- Gerald Olchowy Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1