[ILUG-Social] pubs open on sunday ?

[Niall Walsh]

That's exactly the point!   Each pub owner in the country could refuse 
personally to open on
Good Friday, they are under no obligation to open any day of the year 
HOWEVER they ARE
under obligation NOT to open on Good Friday, even if they are Muslims, 
Agnostics or Devil
worshippers!   The government could not require a pub to open on Good 
Friday as a christian
publican could state that it is against his religion and he would have a 
constitutional defense.

Niall


John Kelly wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:51:08PM +0000, Paul Askins wrote:
>
>>Hmm, I wonder if I could take my local chippy to court over not serving
>>meat (burgers, sausages, etc) on Good Friday, all you can get is fish and
>>chips, nothing else.  I questioned him over it last year and he replied
>>quite matter of factly that you can't eat meat on Good Friday (they're
>>devout Catholics).  I don't know about anyone else but I can eat meat any
>>day of the year I like, regardless what the Church or a chipper says.
>>
>
>Regarding the above (and to some extent (not much), what has already been
>discussed)... the establishments aren't under any sort of legal obligation
>to provide you with booiz/meat/whores.  In the above instance, the owner
>was perfectly entitled to enforce HIS OWN beliefs in HIS OWN shop.
>
>- John
>
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