alaska1415
alaska1415 t1_ja0f6br wrote
Reply to comment by insofarincogneato in Pennsylvania Lawmakers Propose Making Diwali a State Holiday by zorionek0
You literally did. Now that that’s settled.
It’s also not since:
-
The action is not coercive.
-
No one could reasonably see a day off as proselytizing or endorsement.
-
Christmas (for example) is a holiday, yes, but there are numerous secular holidays as well meaning the government isn’t promoting that they only recognize Christian things, as an example. Saying that giving the day off is a violation would also call into question things like Black History Month as a violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments which ban government preference based on ethnicity or race.
-
Granting days off that hold societal significance is itself a reasonable enough secular purpose.
From Ganlun v. United States:
Instead, the government’s accommodation simply acknowledges the existence of this religious exercise and avoids stifling it. Zorach, 343 U.S. at 314 (“When the state . . . cooperates with religious authorities by adjusting the schedule of public events to sectarian needs, it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their spiritual needs.”)
I hope you’re done playing dumb and actually learn something.
alaska1415 t1_j9zn9l6 wrote
Reply to comment by insofarincogneato in Pennsylvania Lawmakers Propose Making Diwali a State Holiday by zorionek0
Are you slow? My comment was in a reply wherein you said a day off in observance of a religious holiday is an endorsement of a religion which violates the establishment clause. I corrected you that it is in fact NOT an endorsement of any religion.
alaska1415 t1_j9ymju8 wrote
Reply to comment by insofarincogneato in Pennsylvania Lawmakers Propose Making Diwali a State Holiday by zorionek0
Nothing you said was in any way a response to anything I said.
alaska1415 t1_j9y0tfb wrote
Reply to comment by insofarincogneato in Pennsylvania Lawmakers Propose Making Diwali a State Holiday by zorionek0
A day off isn’t, in any way shape or form, an endorsement of a religion.
alaska1415 t1_iuiw3nn wrote
Reply to comment by Grimx82 in No, Pennsylvania didn’t send 255K ballots to ‘unverified’ voters by krabstarr
It’s making the case for only in person voting by…..correcting that there weren’t 250,000 ballots sent out to unregistered people?
alaska1415 t1_iu2xh8a wrote
Reply to comment by Strong_Guitar_2135 in Shocking corruption: Federal agents capture Philadelphia Deputy Sheriff on video selling two of the guns used in deadly shooting after Roxborough High School football scrimmage by IdunnoabouttheseDems
Didn’t the Philly Police Union support Republicans in every election since forever?
alaska1415 t1_isk5e5p wrote
Reply to comment by meinkreuz89 in An AirTag led police to a dumpster filled with more than 100 stolen Democratic campaign signs in Pennsylvania. by CQU617
Alaska too, at least when I was there.
alaska1415 t1_isk56hx wrote
Reply to comment by Or0b0ur0s in An AirTag led police to a dumpster filled with more than 100 stolen Democratic campaign signs in Pennsylvania. by CQU617
Republicans simply feel entitled to do whatever they want to whomever they want.
alaska1415 t1_ir1ho33 wrote
Reply to comment by NewAlexandria in Pennsylvania counties can help voters fix problems with their mail ballots, state court rules by gdex86
You’ve been complaining about nonsense for decades? Cool.
alaska1415 t1_iqy5zkb wrote
Reply to comment by NewAlexandria in Pennsylvania counties can help voters fix problems with their mail ballots, state court rules by gdex86
You have to be a troll. That lots of dipshits are in a lather over something they don’t understand does not make it an issue.
That so many people are primed to believe that the ONLY way they could lose was by fraud is the reason so many beloved this.
alaska1415 t1_iqy5tot wrote
Reply to comment by VenomB in Pennsylvania counties can help voters fix problems with their mail ballots, state court rules by gdex86
Ok then, count them when they’re received. Nothing about mail in voting requires they be stored for some amount of time.
alaska1415 t1_jdbbcnz wrote
Reply to comment by Minqua in Gunfire erupts at birthday celebration in Horsham cemetery, killing 1. Group had gathered to celebrate a life lost to gun violence 10 years ago. by PienotPi
The idea that the founders thought every Tom, Dick, and Harry should have a gun with little to no oversight is ahistorical.