If you were forced to choose between ending legal divorce, banning gay marriage, making contraception illegal, or restoring 19th-Century sabbath laws that banned work and play on Sundays, which would you choose?
One of those things doesn’t strike me as a terribly bad idea, but then I like my New York Giants.
Given that the median work week is 47 hours, do you have to ask?
But as long as there is a little religious establishment going on, how about implementing a debt jubilee to go with it?
What about indulgences? Can we bring back indulgences?
the Sabbath laws
Assuming that there isn’t some magical force preventing repeal, I’d say ending legal divorce. Because that one would be the easiest to restore.
If there is some magical force preventing repeal, then from a strict lifeboat ethics perspective banning gay marriage. Even if the same magical force also prevented us from establishing gay marriage in all but name, it affects the fewest number of people.
Option 5: Move to another country, but which one?
let’s go with Sabbath laws- day to be determined by religion to which you belong. ppl need more time off
I get that the Sabbath laws at least have some arguable upside, but they are also de facto discriminatory against members of religious minorities who have their sabbath on a different day.
Time off on all of them. Immediately, that means that Friday, Saturday, and Sunday can be claimed as out. Any other data for the other four days.
Employers seem to think that workers aren’t valuable. So maybe all seven go.
Then make them paid days off.
We all know what serious question means, right?
Hoist a tankard on Thorsday!
Every day is the Sabbath.
http://youtu.be/RdsZT7WKjW8
OT: My back of the envelope estimation off the GWU generic poll of “in your own district” voting is that there are 33 GOP and 22 Democratic House seats really at play. Running the table of those 33 still puts Dems short of taking back the House.
I would take this a baseline Labor Day estimate and watch to see if GOTV and media campaigns can shake any more seats into play.
The big unknown up to election day is how actual experience with Obamacare shifts these estimates. The other one is the extent to which knowledge of NSA surveillance biases people in answering polls.
If we want to restore something from the past, I’d go with usury laws with strict enforcement. Restoring Glass-Steagall would be another good one. As would repealing the deregulation of commodity futures.
How about repealing the federal bans on marijuana and cocaine. Coca-Cola for those over the age of twenty-one might be interesting.
Hmmm, taking up arms against a theocratic tyranny?
Ya’ll Queda need to keep your dogma to yourself.
I’d repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle.
(And the Vienna Circle can bite me.)
Sundays off for everyone! That’s easy.
KS Democrats now get to choose between and Independent and a Republican for the US Senate:
Taylor withdraws from US Senate race:
Oh, and apparently some group of moderate Republicans (who knew such people continue to exist in KS) has endorsed Orman.
I bet you heard it here first.
Actually no. It’s been noted for months that Brownback and Roberts were both running behind. That has made Kansas interesting enough this year that several people have been staying on top of the situation and writing about it. So, someone beat you to the question of whether Osman or Taylor should drop out.