Opening of Shops on Sunday

Wow! Of course Germany is a very strange country. Today in fact we have to discover that the opening of shops on Sunday not only undermines the sense of community, but even unconstitutional! And support was not a follower of Assatanate Oskar Lafontaine, but the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.

Actually, truth be told, Die Linke and SPD were the very parties that have signed that law in 2006 (after the federal reform that gave that power to the regions) allowed the shops of the Land of Berlin to keep its doors open ten Sundays or public holidays per year to adjust to what the consumer needs a little ‘tired of the lift of the dampers with a dropper. The partial liberalization, however, had a relatively short life.

And this for the joy of many trade unionists, affrettatisi until after passage of the law to denounce the poor working conditions that would have been subject the employees of businesses. To tell the truth, to have appealed to the Bundesverfassungsgericht has nothing to do were the unions, but the Catholic Church and the Union of Evangelical Churches, which have alleged a violation of religious freedom, caused by lack of respect for Sunday (and Advent) as days of prayer and rest (Ruhetag). As if the general decline of the faithful, was criticized by the mere possibility of going to buy an ice cream in town.