Stupidist Blue Law Ever

Should'a gone to SUNDAY SCHOOL, Don, that would have been covered.. Christians observe the 'Lord's Day'.

Mark 2:27 (KJS) And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

IOW it is to be used for worship, rest and play. Remember it was the Pharisees who inssisted on strict interpretation of the 'LAW' ... as long as it was their interpretation.

Yet the admonition was based on: Exod 20:8 (KJS) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

Which they took to literally mean the Seventh Day. But in the first century the church began to observe "The Lord's Day" instead, since it was on Sunday that he arose.
I believe it was also to finally sever itself, completely, from Judaism since they were being persecuted for apostacy, anyway.

And, yeah, I had to look it up to refresh my memory of the reasons.. I can give you links.

Ask me about how Jesus not only punned but used ironic humor when he tapped Peter as 'head of the church'.

 

Now.. let's cover those allegations about 'Mega-Corporation' churches being responsible for the blue laws. You cite Maryland which is not a good example of the rest of the country, since it is the ONLY state other than, arguably, Pennsylvania with a real connection to a particular church or denomination.

In fact most blue laws were local and those state-wide were indeed passed to curry favor of 'GOOD CHRISTIAN FOLK' by 'demonstration of piety'. As church attendance decreased and those still religious realized how 'creating law' actually went against the gospel teachings they began to fall away.

NOW... do you know of any employer that penalizes folks for being a little late or leaving early to vote? I havent heard of any... it was always a good excuse anywhere I worked. But i'm SURE that most big Corporations would rather it wasnt a weekday.
As to voting on Sunday... if you think that would increase turnout, you're thinking left-handed. Voting's too much like work for many.

 

We vote on a Thursday, I have no idea why, but it is tradition. We use to have laws to protect Sundays but they have been eroded over the past 15 years. It started with all day drinking - I remember going out to celebrate it!!!!

This is a difficult area. Should your laws protect the majority in their beliefs? If so, should preventing Sunday trading be enshrined in law? Eid has just finished, should that be a national holiday (I am all in favour of more multicultrual holidays!!!)

I work with a muslim and we have set aside space in my server room for him to prey in. There is no legal requirement at present for this, but it could be argued that as an employer we are not meeting his human rights if we do not do this.

Where it gets really interesting is recognising faith. At what point should a government recoginse a religion and protect it's followers? There are some fantastic faiths on the internet.

If you have multi-faith blue laws then they will be abused by psudofaiths to pervert the original intension - eventually they will find a liberal judge who agrees and sets precident.

Finally, law is only useful when it is enforced. Are the laws in Maryland enforced? There are plenty of stupid laws that never get taken of the statute.

 

Ugh, Blue Laws! A reminder of my 4 years of college in Connecticut.

You can't buy beer from ANY outlet (Liquor stores, grocery stores, etc.) after 8 pm on any day and you also cannot buy beer on Sunday. You should have seen the line at the liquor stores on Saturday, 7:30pm.

The best part is that my dad went to Providence for a year (so long ago, it was an all boys school) and it was the first year the blue laws were enforced in RI and CT...still in effect when I got there!

 

Blue laws are retarded, its a fact.

I drove into NY State to purchase alcohol for my daughter's christening (yes, we Irish love to mix alcohol and religion wherever possible) and when I got to the liquor store I was able to buy plenty of wine but could not purchase beer. When I asked where the beer cooler is, the assistant sheepish looks at me and tells me that only supermarkets can sell beer....but supermarkets cannot sell wine. Its was far too much for me to comprehend so I drove back to New Jersey (before my tiny brain exploded with confusion) where liquor stores sell both wine and beer.

As for protecting church attendence...it seems to me that in the New York metropolitan area we have a new religion that has full attendence every Sunday, without fail. Yes people turn up in the thousands and its impossible even to get a parking space. You may have visited one of these houses of worship - one is called 'Macys', another 'Sears' and I think the most pious one is 'Lord and Taylor'.

Finally, voting during the week is idiotic. I run my own business and simply cannot take the time off to visit the local voting booth. As soon as the office is closed I head home to be greeted by the wife and kids and the evening ritual of dinner, bathtime and bedtime begins. When this is all finished and the dishes done and the kids are in bed, its about 8.30...and now I am expected to get back into the car and find a polling station. No sorry chief...weekends would make a lot more sense to me.

I do, however, concur with P-Fog. Voting is too much like hard work for many. We also have another disease: too many people do not believe their vote will make a difference. Of course it will make a difference!!!! Oh, unless of course its a presidential election when the president's brother in Florida will decide who wins that one.

Peace out.

 

Had to get in a drive-by, dintcha!

Of course there is no proof of that and several MSM looked for it... but hey... if it mobilizes the talking points.

Just like Ohio... they all said there was smoke, they looked past the Dem controlled Franklin Co Board of Elections and found none.

'Hanging Chads in Dade County'.. who ran the BoE?

Here's MY drive-by..."It's not the facts in evidence, it's the seriousness of the charge!'

 

Re: RE: Stupidist Blue Law Ever

I knew there was a reason why I kinda liked you.

 

Lived in Georgia for awhile, where you could not buy alcohol of any kind on Sunday in a store, grocery or otherwise, but you can go to the bars and get sauced up before you get in your car to drive home. Makes perfect sense....in Bizarro World. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro

Also, will be voting in my first general election in Florida in quite some time (lived in Miami many moons ago). I'll let you know how things go. Which oddly enough, the key lackey of the Republicans in 2000, Katherine Harris is running for Senator. A person responsible for stealing democracy in a position of possibly representing democracy,..Truly Bizarro!!

 

MORE baiting... yes, she's an idiot.

But would you care to prove your meme?

 

If only the time and resources to do so. Most of that was for your benefit. However, I will be extremely dissapointed if she wins, as she has made some pretty stupid statements during her campaign.

http://www.belleville.com/mld/bellevill ... 363945.htm

 

Huh?
Yeah, like I said she's an idiot... our laws derive from English Common Law.
BUT...
Is that stupider than this?

 

HIJACK ALERT!