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To: Lane3 who wrote (95069)	11/9/2008 6:01:07 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543802

I lived in some countries in the 90's that still had limited trading on Sundays; if you realized you needed something after noon or 1PM, your only option was a convenience store-type place. And if they didn't have a usable substitute, you were SOL until the next day. Most of those places have scrapped those laws now, very sensibly.

To: Lane3 who wrote (95069)	11/9/2008 8:39:12 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543802

Your second take on it wasn't "designed to enforce moral standards." Uhhhhh.....I don't think my first take was either. I clearly identified it within the context of a 'day of rest'. Actually, I've never even thought of Sunday closings as designed to enforce moral standards, although I guess the closing of liquor stores fits, and interestingly that restriction is apparently still enforced in most states. To enforce moral standards, it seems like there would have been laws to somehow force people to do something moral on that day...something more than napping or having family fun. After reading the Wiki definition, though, maybe this explains why you and Rambi took such immediate, chest-heaving offense to my lamenting the loss of Sunday blue laws.