The Inconsistency of Sunday Laws
A recent "Independent" has an article entitled "Legal Exceptions to Morality," which by concrete examples shows the utter inconsistencies not only in laws, but in people. One instance cited to show the absurdity of exceptions is a law in Kentucky, permitting gambling on race-courses, but forbidding it outside those grounds. Inside, gamblers are protected by the police; outside, gamblers doing the same thing are criminals. But this is just the morality of the Sunday law, only worse. Here is a perfectly legitimate, honorable business for six days in the week, but the Sunday law makes it criminal on the one day. In the language of the Independent, regarding the gambling law, "nothing can be more absurd than such a law."