USA SUNDAY LAWS ARE DECLARED AS CONSTITUTIONAL
"Sunday Closing Laws.--The history of Sunday Closing Laws goes back
into United States colonial history and far back into English history. Commonly,
the laws require the observance of the (so called) Christian Sabbath as a day of rest,
although in recent years they have tended to become honeycombed with exceptions.
The Supreme Court rejected an Establishment Clause challenge to Sunday Closing
Laws in McGowan v. Maryland. The Court acknowledged that historically the laws
had a religious motivation and were designed to effectuate concepts of Christian
theology. However, ''[i]n light of the evolution of our Sunday Closing Laws
through the centuries, and of their more or less recent emphasis upon secular
considerations, it is not difficult to discern that as presently written and
administered, most of them, at least, are of a secular rather than of a
religious character, and that presently they bear no relationship to
establishment of religion. . . .'' ''[T]he fact that this [prescribed day of
rest] is Sunday, a day of particular significance for the dominant Christian
sects, does not bar the State from achieving its secular goals. To say that the
States cannot prescribe Sunday as a day of rest for these purposes solely
because centuries ago such laws had their genesis in religion would give a
constitutional interpretation of hostility to the public welfare rather than one
of mere separation of church and State.'' The choice of Sunday as the day of
rest, while originally religious, now reflected simple legislative inertia or
recognition that Sunday was a traditional day for the choice. Valid secular
reasons existed for not simply requiring one day of rest and leaving to each
individual to choose the day, reasons of ease of enforcement and of assuring a
common day in the community for rest and leisure. More recently, a state statute
mandating that employers honor the Sabbath day of the employee's choice was held
invalid as having the primary effect of promoting religion by weighing the
employee's Sabbath choice over all other interests.
For many years the masseshave been saying that Sabbath keepers were crazy for predictign SUNDAY LAWS. Yet they are passing laws EXACTLY as we warned? NOW who's lying?
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