Posted on 06/29/2023 7:54:44 AM PDT by Reno89519
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for a postal worker in Pennsylvania in an important religious liberty dispute, over now far employers should go to accommodate faith-based requests in the workplace.
Gerald Groff, a Christian mail carrier, from Pennsylvania, asked the court to decide if U.S. Postal Service could require him to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays, which he observes as the Sabbath. His attorney, Aaron Streett, argued in April that the court should revisit a 50-year-old precedent that established a test to determine when employers should make accommodations for their employees' religious practices.
In ruling for the government worker, the high court overturned its 1977 precedent that said employers had to "reasonably accommodate" an employee's religious beliefs and practices, so long as it did not create an "undue hardship" on the business.
The new decision tightens the "undue hardship" standard, and could make it easier for some individual employees to secure a religious accommodation in the workplace.
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Sorry, not a problem if businesses just generally close on Sundays like they should.
But nice try.
This wasn’t a problem until AMAZON deliveries
I keep telling people that Commizon is a tax payer subsidized company.
True, but, Roman’s 15:5.
It’s time to get rid of the Post Office and let Amazon, FedEx, and UPS deliver first class junk mail.
“cuz there’s millions of christians who work on sundays.”
What millions of “others” do is irrelevant to his own religious convictions.
Do you think it’s okay to apply a “what most other people do” test to all of our constitutionally enumerated rights, or just the religion stuff?
“Will Jews and Muslims be allowed to refuse to work on Saturdays and Fridays?”
If that was agreed to by management when that employee was first hired, then yes.
This really isn’t a “religious accommodation” case per se, it’s an “originally agreed upon accommodation that management want’s to rescind on” case.
The fact that it’s religious in nature just adds to the strength of the employees argument.
Steely Dan to Beersheba...
The Students for Fair Admissions will get $ and support by many high school seniors now. Congratulations to those 6 attorneys.
14:5?
“Let’s bring back the blue laws everything closed on Sundays.”
Are there any other laws that you want passed that empower the government to dictate the hours a private business can operate?
True, but _everyone_ looks at Saturday and Sunday as the Weekend.
Sort of related Plenty of people hate America these days, or hate Christianity, or hate George Washington, or hate the Pilgrims, but they damn sure take the 4th of July off if they are allowed and Christmas and Thanksgiving etc. A day off is a day off.
Brilliant!!
I think the mackerel snappers go to Mass on Wednesday nights, too! I betcha the Unitarians have some weirdo shit going on Tuesdays. Buddhists? Tao?
Heck I don’t know, but if we research this carefully we can get it down to 2 or 3 workdays for every 7 to 8 days, tops.
Actually, the Sabbath is Friday at sundown until Saturday at sundown.
But the command to obey the Sabbath was part of the Old Testament Law and was put away when the New Testament was established by Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection. To distinguish themselves from the Jews, early Christians met "on the first day of the week" (Sunday), and not as a legal requirement, for regular weekly congregational worship. So Sunday has been mistakenly called "the Christian Sabbath."
The supernova of the Resurrection closed the book on sabbath observation under the old law.
Of course, that happened on Sunday.
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On Sunday, we gather as the Body of Christ to celebrate the Lord’s Day, the day of Christ’s Resurrection: As “the fi rst day of the week” (Mk 16:2) it recalls the first creation; and as the “eighth day,” which follows the sabbath, it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by the Resurrection of Christ. Thus, it has become for Christians the first of all days and of all feasts. It is the day of the Lord in which he with his Passover fulfilled the spiritual truth of the Jewish Sabbath and proclaimed man’s eternal rest in God. (Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 452)
The Scriptures tell us that Jesus rose on the first day of the week—the day following the Jewish Sabbath. Shortly after daybreak, the women found the tomb empty and Jesus risen from the dead. Jesus’ death and Resurrection opened for us the doors of salvation. Sharing in Jesus’ death in Baptism, we hope to share in his Resurrection. We become a new creation in Christ. It is that new creation which we celebrate on Sunday:
“This is the day the Lord has made;
let us rejoice in it and be glad.” (Ps 118:24)
Each Sunday is a “little Easter”—a celebration of the central mysteries of our faith.
THE SUNDAY EUCHARIST
The primary way in which we celebrate the Lord’s Day is with our participation in the Sunday Eucharist. What better way to celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord than by celebration of the memorial of his Passion, death, and Resurrection?
This celebration is not a solitary, private event. Instead, we come together as the People of God, the Church, to worship with one heart and one voice. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) teaches that “participation in the communal celebration of the Sunday Eucharist is a testimony of belonging and of being faithful to Christ and to his Church” (CCC, no. 2182).
When members of our church community are absent from this gathering, they are missed. No member of the faithful should be absent from the Sunday Eucharist without a serious reason. The Liturgy should be the first thing on Sunday’s schedule, not the last. We should arrive on time, prepared in mind and heart to fully participate in the Mass. Those who cannot attend because of illness or the need to care for infants or the sick deserve our prayers and special attention. Often, people will suggest that going to Sunday Mass is not necessary. After all, they can pray at home just as well. This has clearly been an issue in the Church
for more than a millennium. In the fourth century, St. John Chrysostom addressed this problem directly:
You cannot pray at home as at church, where there is a great multitude, where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the union of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of the priests. (CCC, no. 2179, quoting St. John Chrysostom, De incomprehensibili 3, 6: PG 48, 725)
Private prayer, though essential to the spiritual life, can never replace the celebration of the eucharistic Liturgy and the reception of Holy Communion. In some communities, the lack of priests makes it impossible to celebrate the Eucharist each Sunday. In such instances, the bishop may make provision for these parish communities to gather and celebrate the Liturgy of the Word or the Liturgy of the Hours. These Sunday celebrations in the absence of a priest may or may not
include the reception of Holy Communion. Still, these celebrations allow the People of God to gather and keep holy the Lord’s Day.
https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/upload/celebrating-the-lords-day.pdf
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