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ORIGINAL: Laymedown60

Religions don't discriminate people do and they discriminate in every single group regardless if affiliated with religion. It is a personal choice to say I am better than you…but in this case….[:D]

ps sorry tazzygirl the response was for the op...I'll learn

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
The same ten commandments that atheists and others state we dont need to live a moral or good life?
They are basically written into our laws already, with maybe an exception or two.
So, again, i ask, what does "god" expect of me, that the law doesnt expect of you?

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ORIGINAL: SL4V3M4YB3

Not sure they all became law...

You shall not make for yourself an idol (How about American Pop idol?)
Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy (Sunday shopping anyone)
You shall not commit adultery (not law as yet in the west [most places])
You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife (How about the one two doors down?)
You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbour (No more keeping up with the Jones')

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Must employees be paid time and a half for Sunday work?
See MGL c.136, s. 6. According to Your Rights on the Job by Robert M. Schwartz, 4th ed. (Labor Guild of Boston, 2000) :

"With the exception of retail stores (see below), employers do not have to pay overtime for Sunday work unless weekly hours exceed 40 or if overtime compensation on Sundays is required by union contract.

Retail stores. Amendments in 1994 allow retail stores to open at any time on Sundays. The following rules apply:

•Retail stores may not require employees to work on Sundays and may not take adverse actions against employees who decline work.
•Non-managerial employees who work on Sundays must be paid time and one half wages, regardless of how many hours are worked during the week (this obligation does not apply to stores which employ seven or fewer persons, including the proprietor, on each day during the week)
•Employees may not work seven consecutive days

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Some of the laws apply to commerce generally, while others target specific business practices. For example, a Michigan law specifically prohibits pawnshops from operating on Sundays. A North Carolina law prohibits hunting on Sunday.

Supporters contend blue laws serve valid secular purposes, such as providing a uniform day of rest and reducing workloads on police departments (in the case of laws restricting alcohol sales and the potentially resulting law-enforcement problems).

Critics charge that the laws are economically burdensome and violate the religious-liberty clauses of the First Amendment. Some argue the laws violate the free-exercise clause by imposing a disadvantage on those whose Sabbath day is not Sunday, while others argue the laws violate the establishment clause by endorsing and advancing Christianity. Still others say that the laws — though religious in origin — are now justified by secular purposes.

Blue laws have a long history and tradition in the United States, dating to Colonial times. Colonial leaders simply followed the model of such laws in England. However, Sabbath laws mandating a day of rest on Sunday surfaced in the Roman Empire in the 4th century A.D. with the influence of Christianity.

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ORIGINAL: SL4V3M4YB3

People worked in hospitals in the modern era through necessity i.e. the laws were altered to allow for it just as they were altered again to avoid discrimination of other faiths. To say respecting the Sabbath didn't strictly mean don't work ignores the seven day notion and the laws we had to restrict working. Now you can say they existed to encourage church attendance but the laws existed to stop work for the whole day not just a portion of it in the morning. Most Sunday service happened before midday so why not were the laws for just before that time?

Hospitals they probably didn't have when the bible was written.