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A '''blue law''' is a [[law]] | A '''blue law''' is a [[law]] whose purpose is to enforce [[religious]] standards. Most commonly they are restrictions on what can be done on certain days of the week, such as preventing liquor stores or car dealerships from selling their products on [[Sunday]]. While many have been repealed or declared [[unconstitutional]], some such laws still remain. | ||
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A blue law is a law whose purpose is to enforce religious standards. Most commonly they are restrictions on what can be done on certain days of the week, such as preventing liquor stores or car dealerships from selling their products on Sunday. While many have been repealed or declared unconstitutional, some such laws still remain.
Sunday
Note that the Ten commandments say "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." Note that the Sabbath runs from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. Keeping Sunday holy is a later innovation.
- Greek shopkeepers stage strike on first day of Sunday trading
- French prime minister puts Sunday trading on list of economic plans
Christians who celebrate Saturday as their holy day of the week, such as Seventh Day Adventists, consider Sunday laws to be a form of persecution. Some adherents, following the writings of Ellen G. White, claim that a government mandated National Sunday Law will be a sign of the end times. [1]
Constitutionality in the US
Within the United States, Blue Laws have been found to be constitutional in the decision of McGowan v. Maryland because regardless of religious origins, the harm done is not religious harm but generally economic harm. So long as such laws can be supported by even the flimsiest secular rational they are said to not violate the first amendment.
Easter
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