Remember The "blue Laws"? How Did You Spend Your Sunday When They Were In Effect? Would Like To See Them Come Back?

[Saniiro]

[Cuilean]

concept of the separation of church and state.

[Arlie]

IOU-0 said: 1 It was a day for worship and family and quiet times at home sweet home , missed but not forgotten -the world of American society has become to crazy for something so simple , so elegant . 66 months ago

[Archie]

I think every blue law needs to be appealed, and repealed, as a violation of the first amendment and the understood concept of the separation of church and state.   Schelli's Recommendations God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Amazon List Price: $24.99 Used from: $9.87 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5(based on 779 reviews) Summer reading set of 10 nonfiction hardcovers: God is Not Great, Strange Angel, Age of Turbulence, Candy Freak, Working Stiff's Manifesto, War on Middle Class, Savage Grace, Entering Hades, Richistan, How Starbucks Saved My Life Used from: $30.00 Schelli 66 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Gogarty]

I remember the Blue Laws. Even my children, born 20 yrs post "Blue Laws" think they're a good idea.  I would like to see the Blue Laws come back, for several reasons.     First:   The Blue Laws would call attention to the historical fact that America was founded as a Christian nation with a lifestyle so attractive that immigrants wanted to come here from everywhere.(I can almost see the jaws dropping at this ultra-politically incorrect statement, so the evidence follows.) "In 1892,the U.S. Supreme Court determined, in the case The Church of the Holy Trinity vs United States that America was a Christian nation from its earliest days.  The court opinion was delivered after an exhaustive study of the historical and legal evidence for Americal Christian heritage in hundreds of court cases, state constitutions, etc."     Here is part of what Justice David Brewer wrote in the majority opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case cited above:     "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind.  It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian....This is a religious people.  This is historically true.  From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation;  We find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth....These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation."     Today, every group?s right to live according to their own culture is respected except Christians.  Why can?t we have the prosperous, good nation we founded, with the laws respecting our culture, though not establishing the religion of a particular Christian denomination?  The Blue Laws would call attention to the historical fact that America was founded as a Christian nation.      Second:  The Blue Laws would save energy.  Just think of all the electricity that would be saved that is now used to keep stores open on Sunday, to light them, run air conditioning, or heat, and run the cash registers, etc., let alone the gasoline saved by having a day of rest, not of driving around to shop.  Necessary businesses like hospitals and pharmacies, and of course, public services like police and fire, would remain open.     Third: More people might use Sunday to work on building their relationship skills, rather than traveling around to shop or to work.  Whenever I am out on Sunday afternoons near the shopping centers, I usually see a lot of angry, belligerent people, often with road rage, who delight in saying the nastiest things. They don?t seem to have any peace.  This is the main reason my children want the Blue Laws to return:  they hate having to go to work on Sundays, especially facing the Sunday clientele, who are the worst-tempered of the entire week.     The family I grew up in used to do "family" things on Sundays during the days of the Blue Laws.  Amusement parks, museums, zoos, etc., were open, so Sunday was a time to visit them after church.    Nowadays, we still observe the Sunday rest and do not shop on Sunday.  After Church, my family of six usually spends the time relaxing at home, enjoying each other?s company.  We have ping-pong, a pool table, large swimming pool, a large organic garden, pets, etc., and plenty of creative interests and things to do at our home. Besides, we hate fighting the snarled Los Angeles traffic, so we usually relish peaceful, restful Sundays at home.     Thanks for asking this question.  Sources: "The Christian Foundation of America" by Gary DeMar,(available from American Vision),my opinion marneymagic 66 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Raibeart]

We still have them in regard to liquor sales. Unless you go to a bar, you can't purchase any type of liquor legally in CT.  Back when it seemed everything was closed on Sundays, stores, grocery stores, banks, etc., we went to church in the morning, had a large meal in the middle of the day and then either took a nap, adults too, read, took a walk, went for a Sunday drive in the country, cheap gas then, and basically took a day of rest.    In some ways I do miss the Blue Laws.  The pace of life never seems to stop, we're running all the time and seemingly getting nowhere!  Even on holidays now, except for the liquor sales, everything seems to be open.  Don't people ever stop and smell the roses?  I think not, no wonder there are so many people stressed out, maxed out and never feeling healthy.  We need time to renew the body as well as the spirit.  We have trained an entire generation, perhaps several, that you have to keep moving, doing, being, shopping, playing, to live a full life.  Not so.  The mind and body need time to rest so they can be strong when circumstances dictate.  Bear-Lo 66 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Gaara]

Unless you go to a bar, you can't purchase any type of liquor legally in CT.  Back when it seemed everything was closed on Sundays, stores, grocery stores, banks, etc., we went to church in the morning, had a large meal in the middle of the day and then either took a nap, adults too, read, took a walk, went for a Sunday drive in the country, cheap gas then, and basically took a day of rest.    In some ways I do miss the Blue Laws.  The pace of life never seems to stop, we're running all the time and seemingly getting nowhere!  Even on holidays now, except for the liquor sales, everything seems to be open.  Don't people ever stop and smell the roses?  I think not, no wonder there are so many people stressed out, maxed out and never feeling healthy.  We need time to renew the body as well as the spirit.  We have trained an entire generation, perhaps several, that you have to keep moving, doing, being, shopping, playing, to live a full life.  Not so.  The mind and body need time to rest so they can be strong when circumstances dictate. 

[Archie]

Some people went to church, out to a brunch, afternoon at the movies or took the well deserved rest day.   Others did house cleaning and laundry since they worked the whole week and used Saturdays for food and other necessities shopping.   I remember being very happy when we could buy everything we wanted and needed on Sunday, too.   I hated going to the supermarket and what I needed, if it was Sunday, it would be behind a locked gate.   Society today(of course, does not apply to everybody) uses shopping as a hobby/entertainment so it's OK to do it on Sunday.  Laundry is sent out and cooking, of course, a limited amount of people do that.  A lot of people decided for eating out.  They save time not having to make a list, shop for staples, food prep, cooking and cleaning.  Makes sense, if you can afford it.   I think it is great that the stores are open 7 days a week.  Gives some people the opportunity of a very much needed second part time job and for the working people enough time to decide when they want to do their errands.

[gwen]

No shopping on Sunday...... Some people went to church, out to a brunch, afternoon at the movies or took the well deserved rest day.   Others did house cleaning and laundry since they worked the whole week and used Saturdays for food and other necessities shopping.   I remember being very happy when we could buy everything we wanted and needed on Sunday, too.   I hated going to the supermarket and what I needed, if it was Sunday, it would be behind a locked gate.   Society today(of course, does not apply to everybody) uses shopping as a hobby/entertainment so it's OK to do it on Sunday.  Laundry is sent out and cooking, of course, a limited amount of people do that.  A lot of people decided for eating out.  They save time not having to make a list, shop for staples, food prep, cooking and cleaning.  Makes sense, if you can afford it.   I think it is great that the stores are open 7 days a week.  Gives some people the opportunity of a very much needed second part time job and for the working people enough time to decide when they want to do their errands. Violet1 66 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Osker]

 I would like to see the Blue Laws come back, for several reasons.     First:   The Blue Laws would call attention to the historical fact that America was founded as a Christian nation with a lifestyle so attractive that immigrants wanted to come here from everywhere.(I can almost see the jaws dropping at this ultra-politically incorrect statement, so the evidence follows.) "In 1892,the U.S. Supreme Court determined, in the case The Church of the Holy Trinity vs United States that America was a Christian nation from its earliest days.  The court opinion was delivered after an exhaustive study of the historical and legal evidence for Americal Christian heritage in hundreds of court cases, state constitutions, etc."     Here is part of what Justice David Brewer wrote in the majority opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case cited above:     "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind.  It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian....This is a religious people.  This is historically true.  From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation;  We find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth....These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation."     Today, every group?s right to live according to their own culture is respected except Christians.  Why can?t we have the prosperous, good nation we founded, with the laws respecting our culture, though not establishing the religion of a particular Christian denomination?  The Blue Laws would call attention to the historical fact that America was founded as a Christian nation.      Second:  The Blue Laws would save energy.  Just think of all the electricity that would be saved that is now used to keep stores open on Sunday, to light them, run air conditioning, or heat, and run the cash registers, etc., let alone the gasoline saved by having a day of rest, not of driving around to shop.  Necessary businesses like hospitals and pharmacies, and of course, public services like police and fire, would remain open.     Third: More people might use Sunday to work on building their relationship skills, rather than traveling around to shop or to work.  Whenever I am out on Sunday afternoons near the shopping centers, I usually see a lot of angry, belligerent people, often with road rage, who delight in saying the nastiest things. They don?t seem to have any peace.  This is the main reason my children want the Blue Laws to return:  they hate having to go to work on Sundays, especially facing the Sunday clientele, who are the worst-tempered of the entire week.     The family I grew up in used to do "family" things on Sundays during the days of the Blue Laws.  Amusement parks, museums, zoos, etc., were open, so Sunday was a time to visit them after church.    Nowadays, we still observe the Sunday rest and do not shop on Sunday.  After Church, my family of six usually spends the time relaxing at home, enjoying each other?s company.  We have ping-pong, a pool table, large swimming pool, a large organic garden, pets, etc., and plenty of creative interests and things to do at our home. Besides, we hate fighting the snarled Los Angeles traffic, so we usually relish peaceful, restful Sundays at home.     Thanks for asking this question.