Posted on 02/17/2022 5:38:20 AM PST by Kaslin
Exactly. Look what happened with the big retail store chains that began opening on Thanksgiving. After a few years there was so much pushback — perhaps from both workers AND customers — that many of them decided to go back and close on Thanksgiving again.
Two minutes to midnight on the Democrat “Bring Back Slavery” clock.
The political right is also religious (of course that's a thousand different flavors), and while that is good (it's important to have solid values), they ALWAYS seem to want to build their morals, their ideas of right and wrong, good and evil, what is proper into the laws when they are in charge, and of course that is no different than the liberals.
Blue laws = More big government. Just so-called conservative big government.
*** So-called Liberals (they really do NOT believe in a free society and maximization of liberty): social justice and the environment is their battle cry.
*** So-called conservatives (they really are NOT for a smaller government and less regulations nor a free market): national security and their morals is their battle cry.
Tell an American so-called conservative that it's for “national security” or because of “morals” and they will also crap all over the US Constitution, look at the Patriot Act as an example. In fact, some of the biggest increases in government spending, scope of government powers, or infringement of basic Constitutionally guaranteed rights (invasion of privacy, warrant-less searches...) has been under “conservative” administrations.
So, you want to condemn Type I diabetics to either death or bankruptcy? Because that’s what you get with that. In your youth Type Is usually didn’t live long, so hey, it must be okay now, right?
Here’s the scenario: 1. Diabetic’s refrigerator dies overnight and the diabetic patient wakes up to an insulin mix vial that is too warm to safely use and has to be tossed out. (The most common types cannot be used if they get anywhere close to room temp.) 2. No appliance stores open, so the fridge can’t be replaced until Monday 3. Even if you go to one of these emergency pharmacies, well, they don’t sell insulin in the single dose. OOoh, and since the family doctor’s not working today, can’t get an emergency prescription for it anyway if the emergency pharmacy isn’t your regular one. But you don’t have a fridge to store the not-cheap insulin in, so it doesn’t really matter. You can’t use a styrofoam ice chest because if the thing freezes you can’t use it. So, 4. I guess the choice now is to go to the hospital and get a gigantic medical bill! Or, you know, go to church and die because no insulin, I suppose. But hey, at least they were forced to go to church, right?
There’s plenty more medications that have to be refrigerated, plenty more situations where straight blue laws would kill people in the modern era. Are you pro-life? Because this is how you kill people, not save them.
In order for blue laws to not be inhumane as tech and life evolved, they had to set out ridiculous carve-outs that eventually made the blue laws ludicrously stupid.
Depends on which religion you go with. Jews have Sabbath from around sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Some Protestant denominations insist it’s Sunday.
One thing is for sure: This company policy definitely sets them apart from their competitors.
I once worked an after-school job in a local business -- along with all its competitors in the area -- were closed on Sundays. The owner once told me that nobody in that business opens on Sundays because their industry association had done periodic market studies over the years and determined that opening on Sundays would do nothing but spread their Saturday business over two days without providing any tangible added sales revenue.
Ironically, the people who sneer about "legislating morality" apparently don't notice that we are inundated with it now. It just isn't God's morality.
Nothing screams individual freedom like having the government say I can't shop or open my store on Sunday.
Very much agree. That was a better world and I’d enjoy watching millennials flip out.
You sound like you should call your physician immediately you appear to be suffering from diabetic psychosis. I didn’t say a word about forcing diabetics into anything.
There were pharmacies, hospitals and grocery stores that were open to prevent exactly what you describe from happening back then. Do you think communities shut off the lights and locked all doors during the observance of the Sabbath back then? Please. Even the author of the article acknowledges that essential services were always available.
I have/had family members who were diabetic back then, not a one of them suffered any repercussions due to the Sabbath closures.
I’m sorry for your condition but trying to put words in my mouth, whether you’re ill or not, it is completely unacceptable.
Yes, I do believe we as a society would be much better off if we did observe the Sabbath.
There are a lot places where alcohol blue laws still exist.
If only that were the case. The problem with the scenario is that it was real. It occurred in Arkansas in 1984, the diabetic in question was my aunt, Arkansas still had blue laws and this did indeed happen. She chose the hospitalization option, by the way. And yes, communities there back in the Ozarks very well *did* shut off the lights and lock the doors back then. If they could have, they would have rolled up the sidewalks.
“Essential services were always available” - yeah, no. They weren’t, not in a reasonable radius. Less of a problem in cities, more of a problem in exurban and rural settings.
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!
Conservatives should NEVER be advocating for the government to tell businesses when to or even how to run their business - PERIOD! I think Federal minimum wage laws should be ruled unconstitutional!
Unfortunately, most “conservatives” want to use the force of the government to instill acceptable morals - it doesn’t work that way. If you want proof, understand that the Civil Rights Laws are some of the most abused and wasted laws on the books! They are “thought crime” laws! They were great for votes and sound really good; they are absolutely HORRIBLE in action! The freedom of association was DECIMATED because Republicans tried to use the rule of law to set and enforce morals!
Just as God knows He could force you to accept Him, but then your acceptance wouldn’t be heartfelt and sincere; we should learn from that book we all like to read and quote...morals must come from within, otherwise they just create animosity and more hatred!
Blue laws were only mildly irritating once in awhile. Most of the time they were welcome. Sunday was a special day of rest across the nation and it was wonderful. I lived in those times of course.
The opportunity to be reminded of Sunday, to catch your breath, to stay home with family or to join some group activity if that was your choice made starting the whole drill over again on Monday less tiresome.
Where we lived a few restaurants were open and many filling stations but not much else. Nobody was inconvenienced and most were benefited. The highway in front of the farm was hushed and the streets were mostly empty. Like on a snow day.
Not a chance but I’d really like to see the Blue Laws come back. We can easily have 24/6 and we don’t need 24/7.
In the United States, “blue laws,” so called due to the blue paper on which Puritan leaders printed the Sunday trade restrictions, date back to the 18th century at least. Many forms of commerce were regulated or restricted so that workers should spend time in church or with their families.
I think it is in Acts some where, that the Christians (not called that yet) had the habit of meeting on the first day of the week.
I remember my Father taking me into NYC on Sundays on the LIRR back in the day when New York State Blue Laws were in full effect. I’d also heard that they were called Blue Laws because they were printed on blue paper but I have never seen evidence to support that. Anyway my earliest impressions of NYC were of walking through deep dark canyons with nothing open and not many people about. We’d go to museums or a movie. I vividly remember seeing “The Longest Day” with my Dad at a matinee in an almost empty Radio City Music Hall. Most bars and restaurants were closed. Boston was the same way, dark and empty. I agree with the posters who say this is not the governments business regulating. As the author himself points out, and as I learned as I grew older, there were so many special interest carve outs that it made it unmanageable.
But, that’s not the Sabbath. It’s the first day of the week, not the last.
Since no such thing exists, you'll be hard pressed to be proven wrong.
THIS 'society' allows unborn humans to be killed and unborn bald eagles to be protected.
I see what you did here.
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