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I predict most people will vote Good Friday should not be a national holiday since that is the politically correct answer. It would be nice if there was a spring holiday though.
I voted "no." I have no desire to see one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar fall prey to the inevitable commercialization already so apparent with Christmas and Easter.
I created another thread before //www.city-data.com/forum/polit...l-holiday.htmlWhy is Good Friday not a federal holiday?" and I got mixed reaction and reasons back. However, having a poll is better and knowing what peoples opinion is.
Should Good Friday become a federal (national) holiday in the U.S.?
Vote & Discuss
I voted no and I'm a Christian. I also did not read the other thread.
I'm tired of all these freebie days for gov't workers in the form of holidays. If we have Good Friday as a holiday, next we'll be having all sorts of religions wanting their holidays to be observed. It's just going too far. I think we should have less formal paid holidays, not more.
* It will create 3-day holiday weekend for Easter.
If you really want to go that far, you can just take the entire week before Easter off, that is considered "Easter week." A three-day holiday for Easter doesn't really make sense. Either just Easter, or the whole week before it.
However, most companies observes all or the major federal holidays.
Define "most." Our restaurant only closes on Thanksgiving and Christmas. When I was a waitress at Steak 'n Shake, the only days we closed were the same and we were open 24/7 other than that. I could go on.
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Holidays are important because they are part of our culture, and people need a break once in a while. You cannot make people work 365 days a year.
Um, who works 365 days a year, and wouldn't that also be the person's choice if they are doing that?
I voted "no." I have no desire to see one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar fall prey to the inevitable commercialization already so apparent with Christmas and Easter.
Good Friday holiday has nothing to do with retailers/commercilization
Good Friday holiday has nothing to do with retailers/commercilization
Not now it doesn't. But do you really think that retailers wouldn't turn it into another sale day like President's Day, MLK, Jr. Day, Columbus Day, etc.?
It's the American way.
This is one area where political correctness trumps logic.
If its a holiday that's important to 96% of the population, you aren't going to force 96% of the population to work it just so 4% isn't offended. The 4% that doesn't celebrate it can use the day for whatever they please.
I predict most people will vote Good Friday should not be a national holiday since that is the politically correct answer. It would be nice if there was a spring holiday though.
Nope. I voted no because it's purely a religious holiday, while Christmas hasn't been that since Dickens published "A Christmas Carol." That's what tipped Christmas into being secular.
In any case, I don't see 96% of the population going to church on Christmas or Christmas Eve. It's a secular holiday for most professed Christians as well.
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