alt.education

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> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:12:40 GMT, "Jeff Strickland"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>If only we had freedom from religion. Then we would not have all the
>>Blue Laws. The prohibition of select retail activities because the
>>day of the week is Sunday is medieval.
>
> We "Had" all those laws because a challenge wasn't
> mounted----most of them came from conservative
> communities---not a national agenda---until the passage
> of prohibition.


Most of the blue laws came from the shop keeper wanting to take a day off,
not from a compelling desire to regulate your behavior. When a store is
open, but one or two products (lines of products) are not sold, then that is
a problem because it seeks to regulate your behavior. But when the front
door is locked and nothing is sold, then that is not about your behavior.