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Originally posted by Paq
what about jewish who have saturday as holy day
and yeah, this law needed to be struck down. plain and simple.
and who says family values are tied to religion..i hate that. I grew up in a very supportive, non religious household with a mother and father who never married, taught me a decent bit of morality, and let me be me. religion had very little to do with my upbringing and plays very little of a role in my life right now. I'm sure there are many who grew up in the same circumstances. admittedly, some need religion as a base, but that is not justification for pushing that on others.
not to mention, a LOT of companies would be out a huge amount of money from losing hte sunday productivity. Hell, 99% of restaurants would lose their busiest day of the year (Mother's day) Think abuot the tons of money being made just on the fact it's Sunday....
soo, it's funny that this isn't a "let the market decide" issue republicans always talk about...
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I agree with you. I just don't see how the GOP can claim they are the protectors of morals and religion (as seen recently in the Marriage Amendment they are sponsoring).
They had a chance to make sure workers could have a day off a week to observe their sabbath. Granted work needed to be done so that it was not pointing to one religion, but that is a detail easily worked out.
Didn't say workers had to take it off, just they had the right to have their Sunday (which at the time was the majority's Sabbath)off if they so requested it.
What this tells me is that one may not ask for their Sabbath off because no law protects them to having a day ofrf in honor of it.
To me that's the issue. It may not seem like much now but someday it may as other states see Va. setting a precedent.