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Don't think of it as a bad thing: think of it as a victory for multiculturalism! No more "everybody obeys the Christian day of rest" crap. At least now it's fair.

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Of course the "Sunday as day of rest" stuff is leftover baggage from a time when most people were nominally "Christian".

But I don't think that having a common day of rest is necessarily a bad thing. Jews and Muslims both embrace the idea of a "sabbath" ... a day when you don't work and supposedly spend the time in prayer.

The important thing (I don't care about the prayer bit)...there's at least one bloody day where you don't have to work and all your friends and family don't have to work so you can spend some time together...not working!!

Ten-fifteen years ago when there was the great "Sunday shopping" debate in Ontario, the retail unions embraced the idea of Sunday closings and fought hard to keep retail stores closed.

Why? The majority of retail workers are women, generally low-paid at that, often part-time and many single parents. With retail stores being closed on Sundays they'd get to spend at least one entire day a week with their families and especially their kids.

I don't care if the idea of a common day of rest came from religion or not. Alot of good ideas came out of religion...you know like not lying, cheating, stealing, killing people etc.

Even a clock that's stopped is right twice a day I say.