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> Business owners within 500 feet of one of Hamtramck’s four mosques can’t obtain a liquor license, she complained Isn't that an illegal violation of the separ
by c3534l 11y ago
> Business owners within 500 feet of one of Hamtramck’s four mosques can’t obtain a liquor license, she complained
Isn't that an illegal violation of the separation of church and state?
- frozenport 11y agoJust like dry counties or final call?
- raverbashing 11y agoAnd Blue Sundays (but final call I'm not so sure) Also the noise violations for the prayer call Meanwhile Saudi Arabia condemns atheists to death
- c3534l 11y agoThose apply to everyone in the jurisdiction at least, though blue laws are often widely acknowledged as being religious laws that have fallen through the cracks (even though, oddly, Christianity doesn't have any prohibitions on drinking that I know of). Still, they don't say "you can't eat bacon if you live close to a Jew and they tell you to stop." That's insane that a law is in place that says people of a certain religion can tell you what to do simply by virtue of being near you.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoIs it? The ultimate reason behind it might be religious, but it's not enshrining religion in law. I would imagine that it's fine for a county to, say, ban non-halal meat (if they had the power to do so). But it wouldn't be fine to legally mandate daily prayers.
- seivan 11y agoYes, yes it is. There can't be a (serious) doubt here.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoAre dry counties a violation, then?
- rplst8 11y agoDry counties are already banning what is already a controlled substance.
- RottenHuman 11y agostupid question. of course they are. Islam does not know a separation of church and state and does not consider itself a private matter at all. With that religion there comes a mandatory political and societal system, with strict rules on Kuffar and Moslems alike. Wherever Moslem settle in great numbers, Sharia will follow and they will try to implement it.
- tzs 11y agoIf it just applies to mosques then it would almost certainly raise Constitutional issues. If it applies to all churches, then probably not. Most states have or allow their local communities to have rules prohibiting liquor sales near various kinds of community locations, which are generally some subset of schools, churches, playgrounds, daycare centers, and similar. These have been around a long time and have been actively enforced, so I'd expect that if they were a problem they would have been challenged long ago.