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I think that the entire country should shut down completely on Christmas Day - including airports, public transportation, movie theaters and Asian restaurants that are open. Let the country rest for God’s sake one day a year. Essentials like hospitals and emergency services are obviously excluded.
Israel has similar law and even more restricted on Yom Kippur where even TV stations are shut down and empty roads! In mega city London even their public transportation are halted.
Mandatory Christmas Day closing is permitted as per the Constitution (part of blue laws) so no excuses!
That just won't work, not here in a country this size. Can you imagine the backlog that will create for days after such closing.
Following OP's history, I'm sure it's just a matter of time before OP comes in with something about "the Jews".
Oh, he already did, indirectly. Didn't you notice his specific reference to closing Asian restaurants and movie theatres? You know the old trope about where Jews go on Christmas, don't you? I have to give him points for more subtlety than usual though.
Oh, he already did, indirectly. Didn't you notice his specific reference to closing Asian restaurants and movie theatres? You know the old trope about where Jews go on Christmas, don't you? I have to give him points for more subtlety than usual though.
Oh, he already did, indirectly. Didn't you notice his specific reference to closing Asian restaurants and movie theatres? You know the old trope about where Jews go on Christmas, don't you?
Growing up, that’s what we always did. Now that I have my own family, we ski.
It will make the OP happy to know that the hotel offered to put a Christmas tree in my suite, and I said yes.
If you would be so kind as to highlight exactly where in the Constitution it says that...?
Mandatory Sunday and/or Holiday closing is part of the lovely blessed blue laws and obviously they have been ruled numerous times as Constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court (may God bless those who voted to keep them). So if Christmas Day was mandatory shut down it would be permitted. Massachusetts currently bans retailers from being open on Christmas Day as an example
Size of a country is all an excuse. Nobody would die if movie theaters and public transportation were halted for ONE DAY!
No, probably not but, those are the least two things we will have to worry about though. Correction, public transportation is pretty important, we can't shut our airports down.
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I have to give him points for more subtlety than usual though.
Massachusetts currently bans retailers from being open on Christmas Day as an example 
