Comments about ‘Highland City Council votes to allow businesses to open on Sunday’

Such a shame Highland!! This was one of the main reasons I wanted to move to Utah because so many communities had laws preventing shops from opening on Sunday. You'll regret it...and this is just the beginning. What was once a Noon-5pm open law has now been done away with and most retail stores in Massachusetts are open 8AM-6PM on Sundays. It does NOTHING for the economy and breaks down families. It causes more division and separation. What is now bought on a weekday or Saturday....will now be bought on Sunday.....not new sales....but pushed out sales. It may appear that you're creating jobs but if you aren't creating revenue, so the end result is a negative all the way around.

I'm glad I don't live in Highland. I'm sure they are glad I don't either.

Not allowing retail store to operate on Sundays because of religious bias seems so, um, what's the word? Unconstitutional, close how about un-American. Yeah that's it!

They porbably wanted more beer sales. Oh well.....

I have lived in Highland for 30+ yrs. My property taxes get hiked up and good businesses that could contribute to the bottom line of Highland's diminishing coffers have moved elsewhere. I remember when they didn't want cable TV! We attended that meeting and in spite of only one family out of over 200 residents objected to cable the council was going to decide to think about it and do votes etc. But we all shouted them down and they passed it allowing us to finally watch TV in Highland!!! Highland has become a beige stucco community like all the others around here.I would say that since everyone and their dog want to live in Highland..then we need the businesses to be here to keep some of our sales tax dollars in Highland. I would rather spend my money here than in AF or Lehi. Besides..if you don't want to buy things on Sunday then don't...but I know you all are driving down the highway to Lehi to shop on Sundays.,...because I see you there!!!!

ldr92 said:
Such a shame Highland!!

I know, how are we ever going to become a cleric nation like those in the middle east with people acting like America is free, using the free market to decide is embarrassing. People need to be forced to "choose the right."

Just so we're clear you were talking about "christian sabbath" cause the biblical sabbath was Saturday, and we now know thru modern interpretation they were wrong about which day was the sabbath, right!

@ldr

Please provide one credible shred of evidence that businesses being open on Sundays in anyway breaks down the family and does not add to the economy.

These businesses have every right to be open on Sunday if they so choose. We, on the other hand, have the right then not to shop there seven days a week if we so choose. IF it really bothers us as a community, WE can close down the business, rather quickly I might add.

But, this is NOT something that our government has ANY business being involved in - at all. This is a free country, after all.

Bob, what constitution are your reading?? Shopping on Sunday is not a right outlined anywhere in the U.S. laws. Where is it unconstitutional to let a community decide what kind of economic activities they want to have around them? I think the "bias" you mentioned is really pointing back at you, because you won't allow people to support and defend their own values. You don't want the to let the voters decide if their council made the correct decision for them as a community. Your type of bias is what I really fear.

The residents of Highland determined long ago that they valued a community day of rest and it is the residents who should either affirm that they continue in their support of that value or not. Restrictions on Sunday business in America were in place long before the founding of our country and remain in place throughout the country (most of which are not LDS dominated). The right of a state, county, or city to put in place such regulations was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1961 (Maryland vs. McGowan). Sunday closing regulations are also in place in much of Europe even though the most European countries are very secular in nature. They remain in place because these societies value a shared day of rest where most of the community have no work obligations. My guess is most of those complaining do not oppose zoning regulations in general. So why oppose a restriction on hours of operation specifically when the hours include Sunday? I'm not sure.