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To: SoldierMedic
Southern Ontario once had a Wednesday afternoon "blue law". All the stores closed. Had nothing whatsoever to do with religion.

Now, tell me how those "blue laws" affected religious beliefs or were a consequence thereof.

105 posted on 09/30/2007 11:43:37 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

blue law n.

1 A law designed to regulate commercial business on Sunday.

2 One of a body of laws in colonial New England designed to enforce certain moral standards and particularly to prohibit specified forms of entertainment or recreation on Sundays.

Blue Laws = Morality Laws


117 posted on 09/30/2007 11:53:57 AM PDT by SoldierMedic (Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
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