Posted on 10/04/2006 6:22:03 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
Can't say that I do. But it seems to me that if you'd rather not shop on Sunday, you should feel free to stay out of the stores. And if you're a retailer with an aversion to opening on Sunday (like the Chick-fil-A chain), don't open on Sunday.
But I can think of no rational reason why a government -- national, state, provincial, city -- should tell businesses when they may and may not operate.
I agree totally! If you don't like commerce on Sunday then don't do it, but you shouldn't use the police power of the government via politicians to impose your personal beliefs on the rest of us who may WANT to shop on Sunday. Things like this is why I generally dislike religious based political organizations.
Hopefully Bergen County in NJ will follow this lead. A ban on Sunday shopping is absurd. What about Jews who can't shop Saturday? As others have said, if retailers don't want to open and shoppers don't want to shop, it's a free country.
Great news. There should be no blue laws. We are not a theocracy.
Yet another instance of how constraints on government regulations are easily be found improper if there is (or was) a religious motive involved, and almost impossible to overturn otherwise. The secular mullahs strike again. If they struck down government regulations even-handedly, that might be some reason to applaud judicial activism, but it is a one-way street with the Christophobes.
Things have changed!
Bring back the Sunday Blue Laws!
Life was better!
Ya know, that's ridiculous. Some of us occasionally like to go get beer and munchies for an impromptu Sunday afternoon football party. There is *no* good reason to keep the stores closed if there is a demand.
I've gotten spoiled to buying stuff on Sunday too.
Truthfully, though, life can be lived with Blue Laws...and it did seem better, IMO. :)
I will respectfully disagree. When I lived in Indiana, it was *annoying* as hell when I forgot to stock up on Saturday on beer/wine for football on Sunday and couldn't go get it anywhere.
I've also lived in the mountains where the main grocery store was 18 miles away in the next town. I'd go shopping once a week. Wasn't a problem.
We just have different points of view.
But I do remember growing up with the Blue Laws, and life was fine.
We'll just disagree on this one. :)
Hobby Loby chooses not to open on Sunday. IMO it would be one of their busiest days because of the number of people off work on weekends.
All good.
So you're willing to use the brute force of government to protect some businesses from competition for Sunday customers from other businesses?
That's not a very conservative viewpoint.
Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, and others who choose not to open Sundays pay dearly for their decisions. Not only do they forgo a potentially lucrative day every week, but they surely miss out on some prime locations: most shopping center developers don't want a "dead spot" in their strip center or on their corner outparcel.
But that's fine. Retail operations that choose not to open on Sundays know the effects on their bottom line. Having a government forbid Sunday openings is something else entirely.
I'm with you.
Chick-fil-A has been in the business of selling chicken for over fifty years, never losing sight of founder Truet Cathy’s original vision of a restaurant that was quick and friendly, with great food and exceptional customer service. On this foundation, Chick-fil-A has grown to 650 quick-service restaurants across the country, and continues to add 50 to 100 new sites per year.
Fifty years in business, 650 outlets, expanding steadily - doesn't sound like they're hurting too badly.
The people who want to go there would go there Saturday though. I see it as 6 days of business folded into 7.
Let's assume that, for whatever reason, thousands of Orthodox Jews decide that your county is a great place to live and move there. They then become a majority of the electorate.
Let us assume that a plebiscite is then held and 51% of the electorate votes that stores not be allowed to open on Saturday or during Jewish Holy Days and that restaurants not be allowed to open during the seven Jewish Fast Days.
Would you be O.K. with that?
A pure democracy where 50% of the vote plus one additional vote trumps everything else is nothing but mob rule.
In a constitutional republic or a constitutional monarchy that allows freedom of religion, your constitutional right to not to have the religious preferences of others imposed upon you trumps the desire of the majority of voters to do just that.
From a purely religious perspective, if God gave Man a free will to seek his own path, why should Government decide that shopping on the Christian Sabbath should be taken off the free will table?
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