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Virginia revives Blue Laws

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Blue Laws were once very popular here in the South. Many didn't just mandate a day of rest for employees but forbad stores from evening opening on Sundays. Last time I encountered them was as a teenagers when the addled Lester Maddox was Governor of Georgia and felt led by the Holy Spirit to revive them. One of his less popular moves.

The Virginia General Assembly accidentally revived that state's Blue Laws recently. Here's one worker's reaction.

Jonathan Larson, an employee of the Bible Factory Outlet in Leesburg, said he and his colleagues at the store would like to have Sundays off to go to church.

"None of us want to work there on Sundays. I believe God has instilled a law in which we should take a rest," he said. "It makes sense that the human body isn't made to work seven days straight."

Kind of funny that the Bible Outlet (?) won't give them time to go church.

Va. Judge Suspends Blue Law

Richard Evans Lee
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Hmm. Republicans cementing their "business-friendly" attitude?

Posted by: Tom Morris | July 4, 2004 8:51 AM

I used to work at a non-Xtian mall bookstore. The mall also contained an Xtian book-and-other-shit store that was closed on Sunday. People would go to the Xtian store on Sunday after they'd just gotten religion or something. It would be closed. They'd come to us and buy their new Xtian Bible. We carried a lot of "bibles" from all sorts of religions, and kept them all together -- segregated by religion, but in their own religio-philosophical ghetto. :)

Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas | July 4, 2004 3:17 PM

My very dim memory of Wills when you worked there was that it was as much a card, maybe gift shop as much as anything. Think I went only once but I did profit. They had clear dust jacket protectors for sale and we started doing likewise. You've probably noticed the tacky Christian book & crap shop that opened up across from Northgate Mall next to OfficeMax. If I could drive I might go by one night and chuck a rock through their window.

Posted by: Richard | July 5, 2004 2:51 PM

Saturday is still the Sabbath Day, not Sunday. Jesus is Jewish and his name is Yeshua and he never started a new relgion. Constantiine and the Catholic church changed the day. What do you want, the doctrines of men or the Word of God?

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