Standing Religious Liberty on its Head

[Igel]

3. I skimmed the report.

I don't think we read the same report. It's not "hand on!" but "hands off!"

Yeah, that paragraph and some other proof-texts can be held to argue something that the surrounding text doesn't support and might even suggest is not quite right. Hence "proof-texting" as a pejorative in exegesis.

BTW, I was a pretty strict sabbatarian for a long time myself, and remember blue laws in Maryland long, long after the 1880s. Even in TX, you realize you have friends coming over and you'd like to serve mixed drinks but the liquor cabinet's dry, you can buy wine and beer (only after noon, not before), but nothing harder than that on Sunday. So if you're a sabbatarian and are talking at services Saturday morning about next day's plans, but it's summer so the liquor stores might be closed by the time the sun's down, you're out of luck.

(Under the proposals, a sabbatarian could sue to stay closed Saturday and open on Sunday--because religious discrimination.)