No-one is saying it's offensive or forbidden or blasphemous.
This isn't a matter of personal offense; this is public policy -- a city ordinance -- we're dealing with. The ultra-Orthodox community sees it as minimizing their concerns -- not 'offensive' in a moral sense -- and disrupting the admittedly delicate social and cultural constructs that everyone in the city has worked so hard to put together over the last half-century. At no time are the u-O members saying it's 'immoral' for non-Jews to use the parking structure (or drive) on the Sabbath.
It's perfectly acceptable for the non-Jew to drive -- it's the status quo, and it's not a moral issue. The mere act of *changing* the situation regarding a parking structure... *that* is the issue for them; they're not saying it's immoral for others at all.
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Date: 2009-07-16 09:57 pm (UTC)This isn't a matter of personal offense; this is public policy -- a city ordinance -- we're dealing with. The ultra-Orthodox community sees it as minimizing their concerns -- not 'offensive' in a moral sense -- and disrupting the admittedly delicate social and cultural constructs that everyone in the city has worked so hard to put together over the last half-century. At no time are the u-O members saying it's 'immoral' for non-Jews to use the parking structure (or drive) on the Sabbath.
It's perfectly acceptable for the non-Jew to drive -- it's the status quo, and it's not a moral issue. The mere act of *changing* the situation regarding a parking structure... *that* is the issue for them; they're not saying it's immoral for others at all.
*Inconvenience*, yes; a moral imperative, no.