Mmmmm, no.
“Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.”
Ecclesiastes 7:10 NIV
North Dakota is/was like this. It takes a little getting used to, but Sundays are really quiet and calm.
No. Having government interfere with businesses, e.g. when they are allowed to be open, is either corporatist or fascist, depending on one’s perspective. Neither is beneficial.
Americans should grow the hell up and stop asking government to legislate personal moral standards that we are perfectly capable of adopting for ourselves. And that statement covers a lot of ground that goes way beyond just Blue Laws.
Start with yourself, then get your own family on board. Find a job that doesn’t require Sunday work. If you’re the boss, then set that rule for yourself and your entire company. Stay the hell away from shopping malls on Sundays. Heck — Don’t even log on to Amazon or any other retail sites on Sundays.
I do my part by taking this one step further and going out of my way to patronize business establishments that are closed on Sundays. I must confess, however, that it’s not difficult to do when you’re surrounded by Mennonites and Amish who — unlike the simpering, pathetic Christians who seem to show up in the media these days — would set themselves on fire before they’d ever open for business on a Sunday.
Eliminating Blue Laws was the right thing.
It would be no different than if the gov’t enacted Ramadan laws.
Workers now have more flexibility in their schedules than ever before. Work from home, 4-10 hour days rather than 5-8 hour days, etc.
Let the market decide what is best and let workers choose the employer that matches their personal needs.
Such things should be about Individual Liberty, not collective mandates.
No.
If a store wants to be open on Sunday, that’s their business.
If a person doesn’t want to shop on Sunday, then don’t.
When I was a kid on Long Island, I remember going into a pharmacy with one of my parents on a Sunday.
The pharmacy area was open, but the aisles of the pharmacy were roped off with those movie theater style rope lines.
Even as a kid, I thought it was weird.
Imagine that, national Sunday legislation. Who would have thought...
Which sabbath? Saturday or Sunday? Saturday sabbath is not just for Jews.
I do miss quiet Sundays but don’t believe you can legislate this in a truly free society
There are lots more accurate and fitting phrases that could be used to describe Sonia Sotomayor following her comments.
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.
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.
There are a lot places where alcohol blue laws still exist.
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.