Good Friday cancellation

[Sanford Levinson]

Bob Destro asks,


>     Wouldn't an order expressly drafted as a means of accommodating
>     students, faculty & staff be an "observation" of Good Friday?
>
I really don't think so.  This is the difference between state endorsement
and accommodation of private decisions.  If the state allowed individuals to
take off their birthdays, I don't think we'd necessarily want to say that
Texas was "observing" their birthdays.  This is, obviously, all very picky
argument, but I think that language matters.

Sandy Levinson

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Sanford Levinson
B.U. Law School
EMail: levinson at bu.edu
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