Discrimination in a privat business

[Michael McConnell]

I am not sure that I under Joseph Partizsky's question. In
the absence of legislation, surely a landowner is entitled
to close his business on the sabbath. Enactment of a law
prohibiting private persons from discrimination on the
basis of religion would not change this result: it is not
discrimination on the basis of religion to close one's
business on the sabbath. In fact, the principle of freedom
from religious discrimination would suggest that it would
be *improper* for the state to intervene to force this
landowner to open on the sabbath.
-- Michael McConnell (U of Utah)